The wraps are off of Etch and we can now talk about what is known. I’ve summarized some of the main points from the live stream presentations.

Frank Klein shares seven websites built using block themes. It is interesting to see the variety of designs, like the OptinMonster site

50 web design mistakes to avoid, with explanations, in 9 minutes. If you like this video, there is an earlier installment from 3 years ago with other design mistakes that is linked in the video description.

The WebDevStudios team has created their own block theme, WDS BT, which looks pretty interesting. There is a link to the theme and an outline of their design system in this blog post from the esteemed Lisa Sabin-Wilson.

For new users – This is a good overview of WordPress permalinks, their options, and use.

The Astra theme just got a Style Guide in the Customizer. You build out your Style Guide as you fill in or complete sections in the Customizer. A nice idea.

The SolidWP team has released a free performance plugin called Solid Performance.

The pro version of the popular PostX Gutenberg blocks collection has added support for ACF, Meta Box and Pods custom fields.

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.