This is an advanced tutorial on using the WP_Query object.

For developers: WordPress 6.1 added the “did_filter” function to check if your filter has already been run during the current page load. It is a bit esoteric, but useful if you need it.

This is a good overview and tutorial for using the functions.php file.

In the not WordPress, but useful department – Here are some nice browser dev tool tips. The author of the article maintains a site with these and the ones in the article are the most popular.

Here is a nice list of WordPress plugins from Jeff Starr that are useful when developing or debugging. I’m happy to see BugFu at the top of the list as I’ve found it easy and useful.

Interested in block development – this tutorial shows how to create a dynamic block using the RestAPI and the useEntityRecords to get a listof pages. It is a complete tutorial and you should be able to create a working block by following it.

Marcus Kober has written this in depth guide for developers on how to add hooks to your PHP code.

Yikes! – Note that WordPress 6.2.1 removes support for shortcodes in block theme templates. Apparently this was part of one of the security fixes. There are a couple of work-arounds mentioned in the thread.

For the programmers in the group, WordPress 6.2 shipped with a new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor. In this video Aurooba Ahmed and Brian Coords discuss it and do a walk-through to explore its uses.