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.

In this video Jamie Marsland shows one of the reasons why it is easier for new users to get started building their site with a Classic theme than a block theme.

Here is a great post from Jeff Starr explaining the difference between plugins, must-use plugins, and drop-in plugins.

Checking a website’s accessibility is import for usability and conversions. If people can’t read or use the site, they go elsewhere. In this training Gen Herres does a super fast audit and a quick audit and then compares those to a detailed page audit.

Many of these are tests that people can run with a small amount of training and find out much more information than automated tests provide.

In this video we take a deep dive into the current state of WordPress block themes. We look at the most popular ones, we look under the hood to understand block themes, and we look at the current stats. I have a better understanding of block themes after going through this process.

You may have heard someone say, “there is a plugin for that!” There are many WordPress plugins, if only we knew about them and which ones to use. In this video I look at one to copy posts and pages from site to site, one to allow for a draft post to be previewed by someone you select, and one to totally customize the WordPress admin.

Marko Krstic has released a free plugin on the WordPress plugin directory. It helps you find where blocks are used and also helps you find where synced patterns have been used. This is useful if you are changing out block collections, among other uses.

Here is an in depth guide to upgrading your PHP version.