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

If a site has a plugin installed that was closed in the WP plugin directory there is no notice in the site admin, which could be a security issue. The WordPress org Experiments plugin adds the notice in the admin that users would see if they were on the dot org site.

This is a cool color palette generator that shows the color shades in an alert box where you can check the color contrast for accessibility.

Another video from Paul Charlton in his Mastering Bricks series. If you want to get started with Bricks these are good videos to watch.

Dennis Yo recently released SleekPixel. It is a plugin that provides an image editor within the admin for automatically creating Featured Images and Open Graph images. This video provides a walk-through and look at the features. I’m impressed with it.

Here is a short video from Brian Coords showing how to setup a local WordPress environment on a Mac using (all free) Laravel Herd, DBngin, and WP-Cli.

Slim SEO is a free lightweight plugin that helps you optimize your site and content for SEO with minimal configuration. The team just released version 4 which allows you to use dynamic tags in your meta titles and descriptions. Here is a video that looks at the features.

Here is an informative and well presented presentation by Andrey Shevchenko, CTO of Crocoblock, on planning your project data structures. It covers a lot of the areas where people often question when you should use a custom table or meta fields, as well as when you should use taxonomies or meta fields.

Kadence has just released its new Kadence Advanced Header and Navigation Blocks. It is part of Kadence Blocks Free. You can use it with any block theme as well as with the Kadence classic theme. This is an awesome solution for block themes.