Bricks 2.0 Alpha has been released for testing. Instructions for how to download it are at the top of the changelog. There are a good number of new features and updates available. Some of the new features include Nested Components, Builder Capabilities manager, Element Manager, In-Builder Font Manager, In-Builder Icon Manager, Bulk-Edit elements, Visual CSS Grid Builder, Revamped Pseudo Class UI, and Selector Detector, among others.

This is an interesting idea. The FlowMattic team added an email designer and the ability to send emails to their automation tool.

Speculative loading is now enabled in WordPress 6.8 by default, but this may require some tweaks such as using full-page HTML caching to avoid additional server load. Rob Marlbrough shares what it means for SEO and your site performance, and how to set it up on your site easily.

GenerateBlocks 2.1 alpha was released. It includes a number of refinements such as a styles indicator system, new device visibility options, accessibility improvements, and other updates.

Jeffrey is on fire in this video from last year. I was doing some optimizations and got to fonts. He clearly breaks it all down. Note to use transfonter.org now instead of Font Squirrel.

In this video Matt Medeiros tries out the new WordPress.com AI site builder.

The Beaver Builder team shares what they have planned for the next version. The list includes dynamic global templates, predesigned modules, a star rating module, and accessibility improvements.

The media library and settings for image sizes is a WordPress black hole. There is very little guidance on the optimal image sizes and we all have experienced the media library getting out of hand. In this video Imran Siddiq shares a code snippet and technique for cleaning up image sizes. If you want to try it out, definitely take a backup and test it on a staging site first. It is good of Imran to share his work.

Stackable Blocks has added a new global styles feature. It lets you easily set defaults for spacing and borders, color schemes, fonts, and buttons and icons.