Here is a tip from the Delicious Brains team for when you are migrating a site to new hosting. They suggest setting up the old site to forward to the new site when you change the DNS, in case there are some DNS servers that are slow to propagate or people have the old site cached. They provide instructions for Nginx and Apache.

Here is a great video tutorial by CliftonWP on now to create a custom WP Admin dashboard using the Kadence Theme and Kadence Blocks. Note that although it uses Kadence, you can use the methods shown with other themes, block collections, or builders.

A good discussion of the challenges, techniques, and tools for merging databases across production and development.

w00t! It is finally up – the first video in Paul Charlton’s Bricks course.

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.