This article talks about the new direction for WooCommerce, emphasizing WooExpress as a competitor to Shopify.

The WordFence open source command line scanner now scans for malware and vulnerabilities. It is written in Python and requires power user or sysadmin skills to setup, but is a good resource. This article in the Tavern has links to the documentation and code.

This is an interesting podcast interview with Katie Keith where she shares about her WordPress journey, her take on the economy, lifetime licenses, and running her own business.

It sounds like the alpha of Divi 5 will be available early next year. I was surprised to hear that if it is not missing features you need, that you can go ahead and start using it. Probably not something I’d do.

This video shows the direction that the Bricks team is taking with components.

WooCommerce is rebranding to Woo.

This video walks-through changes coming to the WooCommerce editor page, which are currently in beta.

Bricks Advanced Themer 2.1 from Maxime Beguin is now available. Advanced Themer is a toolbox focusing on CSS class and variable creation and management, helpers in the Bricks editor focused on theming, and much more. The great thing about it is that the features are modular and can be enabled as you want to use them.

ACF vs Meta Box – In this video I do a simple comparison of ACF and Meta Box performance. It is difficult to compare them because they have different architectures, but we learn some things in the video and are able to draw some conclusions.