A discussion of changing business practices and what is on the roadmap for the next quarter, including Kadence Blocks 4.0, global styles, Full Site Editing, and Shop Kit updates.

Breakdance 2.3 has several new features, including the new revamped Quick Navigator, which allows you to create new pages, templates, and global blocks directly in the builder.

Greenshift has been working on a modern version of their blocks called Greenlight that is lightweight and provides an advanced workflow. In this video I do a walk-through showing how to use the Greenlight blocks and I look at the new features and workflow.

GenerateBlocks 2.0.0 was released today with a number of notable dynamic features. These include Dynamic Tags that allow you to dynamically display site content anywhere inside an block HTML, the Query block in GenerateBlocks 2.0 Pro can now query and loop anything, and there is improved support for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Do you want to stop AI bots from scraping your site content? Jeff Starr has compiled a list of AI bots, currently 104. In the article he talks about ways to implement blocking them.

The WordPress 6.7.2 maintenance release is rolling out with 35 bug fixes. I’ve updated a dozen sites without issue.

Here is an article from the Delicious Brains team on understanding and using ARIA roles in WordPress.

If you want to have a simple option for using ACF custom fields in Gutenberg then you’ll find this video by Paul Charlton interesting. He looks at the free version of the Meta Field Block.

Brainstorm Force launched SureMails and in so doing raised the bar on free SMTP solutions. SureMails will retry email sending, allows you to configure alternative SMTP providers, email logging, analytics, and some basic spam filtering.