Thinking of trying out the Site Editor? Mike Hindle tried an experiment and used the Twenty Twenty-Four theme for a simple business site. He shares the pain points he encountered and how he addressed them.

Joost just released a new plugin, Progress Planner. Its purpose is to help website owners keep track of site-based work and to encourage it through gamification. There is a free version on WordPress org and a pro version is planned.

Breakdance is preparing version 2.0 with a lot of new features. In this video David McCan looks at two that he thinks will be popular: migration mode and the new layout builder. The new migration mode appears to be unique and innovative.

I learned a new technical term today, “morange.”

Many plugins add rows to the WordPress options table that are set to auto-load. On old sites where a lot of plugins have been installed/uninstalled there can be orphaned options set that are still being loaded, even when no longer needed. This plugin, named AAA Options Optimizer, helps to address that issue.

A good article about the relationship between users’ mental models and design patterns.

For Elementor users – here is a helpful tutorial from Mark Crowell on how to find the causes of and how to fix horizontal overflow issues.

The new local development environment will be called Studio. You can site up for early access when it becomes available.

WordPress Beginner has now started offering site build services. One thing interesting about this is that they have posted their pricing, which is something many don’t share up front.