This is another cool use of the WordPress playground and provides a quick way to test themes and plugins. They intend to extend it with with further options.

The Oxygen Builder 4.8 beta is available. The main feature is a new navigator for quickly switching between templates, pages, and posts. Being able to switch from within the editor greatly cuts down on the time. The other feature is an improvement to break point unit inheritance for better consistency.

Project IDX is a new browser-based development environment for building web and multi-platform apps. It utilizes a cloud-based Linux VM, the Visual Studio Code IDE, and Google’s own Cody, an AI coding assistant. There is support for multiple frameworks and languages. There is currently a waitlist.

This is a recording of the presentation from the WordPress Accessibility Meetup in August 2023. The demonstration show accessibility features of the Builderius page builder.

The Getwid Gutenberg block collection added a new AI writing block that is powered by OpenAI. The goal is to make it quicker to create content from within the Gutenberg editor.

This is a long awaited update to the WordPress coding standards rule set checker.

In this post Chris Lema considers two approaches to pricing: low cost or a freemium model vs a high price strategy.

One question people often ask is what’s the difference between Meta Box and Advanced Custom Fields? One difference is that Meta Box has an extension called Frontend Submission. What this does is it lets you easily create a front-end form for submitting posts or Custom Post Type records. That type of functionality is available for ACF but only as a third party extension. Here is a tutorial creating a front-end Contact Us form for a Custom Post Type called Contacts. The video version is near the top of the post.

I’ve often thought that there would someday be an API we could use to “clean” blocks of custom CSS when we move from one Gutenberg add-on to another, or when core is so good that we don’t need add-ons. This comprehensive look at the HTML API confirms that, but it also gives a view on a tool that developers and power users will be able to use with WordPress in the future.