Here is a nice design tutorial from Jeffrey Dalrymple. He shows how to create a subtle skeuomorphic (realistic 3d) effect that can be applied to buttons, cards, or other block elements. Elementor is used in the video, but the principles can be used with any builder.

For Elementor users – here is a helpful tutorial from Mark Crowell on how to find the causes of and how to fix horizontal overflow issues.

Elementor introduced a new “Lite” plan that only has Elementor free. It is $36 the first year and then goes to $144 a year. They also raised pricing on the other plans.

Jeffrey Dalrymple has been busy making courses but now he is making videos again. Here is one showing how he creates a starter site that uses Elementor. A starter site is a site template with your plugins and theme installed and configured. You can then clone it for a quick start every time you being a new build.

A new Elementor beta 3.20 has been released and Paul Charlton takes a look at the features. The main one is more visibility conditions.

The number of items in the queue for plugin review is going down as WordPress businesses step-up and sponsor team members.

Paul Charlton challenges the often repeated notion that you have to be a developer to use Bricks. In this video he highlights similarities between Elementor and Bricks to show that basic concepts are the same while also showing that some of the differences in how they are implemented in Bricks provides flexible and powerful options.

Miriam Schwab, who is on the Elementor team, mentioned on Twitter that Elementor has crossed the 15 million active install mark.

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