Secure Custom Fields is a fork of ACF Pro. It provides all of the features of ACF Pro for free and the number of active installs is rapidly growing. In this video I look at the pros and cons of SCF for users and also consider the issue from the point of view of developers who might be asked to support it.

Admin Site Enhancements Pro just got a form builder. While it is not a ftotal form solution, it is more than good enough for many uses. Paul Charlton provides an overview of this new feature.

This is a great 8 minute video that talks about site layout.

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.