Congrats to Patchstack – now a member of the Open Source Security Foundation.

WordPress has a number of great free plugins in the plugin directory. For the past few years at this time I’ve taken a few minutes to write a review on the plugin page to express my thanks for the plugins I use and rely on. This year I gave a review for Independent Analytics, which I’ve used on a couple of sites.

If you have a few minutes, I’m sure the plugin authors would appreciate a review.

Block Theme Development – There is a cool plugin called Create Block Theme that allows you to export a new theme or a child theme based on site styles and templates created using the Site Editor.

There have been a couple of improvements to the plugin which include the ability to select, preview, and manage theme fonts, and changes to make it easier to export. These changes are shown in this short video by Jonathan Bossenger.

I enjoyed this Hyperplexd video tutorial showing how to recreate a simple well designed webpage using mainly CSS, with HTML and JS.

This is a full walk-through tutorial on creating custom blocks using Blockstudio.

DeliciousBrains has an in-depth tutorial on installing WordPress in a subdirectory.

Kadence Blocks Pro now has a Repeater Block that works with ACF repeater fields. This is an advanced feature that will appeal to users who build sites using dynamic data. I created a video with a walk-through.

This is a very interesting discussion about WordPress pricing and how to maximize profits.

Pippin Willianson created Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, and other notable plugins. A few years ago he sold them off and has not been active in the WordPress community. Here is an interview where he talks about why he left WordPress and what he has been doing since.