The Elementor team has released a new plugin and service for image optimization.

In this article Elvis Krstulović weighs in on the discussion on user friendly builders, no-code options, and whether these are niche or not niche. He shows that UI controls, such as are used for flexblox layouts, are common across professional design tools.

The beginning of the new year is a time to ponder trends and predict what will happen in the coming year. Here are David McCan’s top 3 predictions for 2024.

When you create a starter site using ZipWP you step through a wizard. They have now added a “Features” step that brings in features from other Brainstorm Force plugins. Sales funnel, donation, automations and integrations, and video players are features currently available.

Gutenberg block developers say “static block” or “dynamic block.” This short article in the developer handbook explains the difference.

This report about Gutenberg phase 3 collaboration and enterprise outreach is pretty interesting. It suggests that as far enterprise goes, the Google Docs type of multi-author editing was off target.

Advanced topic about blocks – Ronald Huereca has created a tutorial on inner blocks which will be of interest to those creating blocks.

WordPress com is Automattic’s hosting platform and if you have a paid Creator plan or above then you can install WP plugins. This is a list of the most installed free plugins on dot com in 2023.

Here is a video from a Pinegrow user showing how to create the ACSS/Frames “Section Victor” layout as blocks using Prinegrow.