The Generate team has released a big jump forward by adding support for creating and managing CSS variables, selectors and classes, a style book and more.

A new version of FluentComments was released. It brings AJAX commenting, spam protection, and additional email options to the default commenting system. FluentComments works with Classic themes, Block themes, and page builders. In the walk-through I show all three options, including adding a comments area to templates for the new Mosaic Builder.

The Mosaic team has largely fixed the output issues and simplified the class system.

The WordPress team just released an official browser extension for Chromium based browsers and Safari on Mac OS. I tried it out and it is very useful.

There are several code snippet management plugins available. FluentSnippets, developed by Md Shahjahan, is the best free one and does a number of things better than premium offerings. It passed the 50K install milestone, and it is not surprising to me that people trust it. This article provides some history about the plugin, the philosophy behind it, and information about the recent update.

GeneratePress 3.0 Premium will deliver a reinvention of the Elements module. This new feature, named Template Engine, will use modern technology to provide 100% block-built sites that load faster and with greater freedom than either Elements or Block themes can. It will also deliver many Element-related feature requests and a simple, non-destructive upgrade path. GB Pro 2.8 brings Global Styles upgrades and new Design Tokens into a shared design workspace.

A new Divi 5 update includes two new modules: Post Filter and Tooltip with 4 more on the way. You can now build custom fields that let users search, filter, and reorder loops on the front end.

Jamie Marsland is sharing a project he has been working on that is patterned after Canva. It is a free form builder that saves to Gutenberg blocks and uses CSS Grid for the layout. Yes, it was coded with the help of AI. the video is very short. There is a demo link, no login required.

I stopped doing things for Google some time ago, but I didn’t know that they have a “change of address” tool to use during domain migrations. Seems good to know.