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How To Use Cinematic Storytelling Techniques In Short-Form Video

Do you struggle to hold your audience’s attention no matter how short your videos are? As videos on social media get shorter, so do the attention spans of the average…

16 Blog Loops For Divi 5 (Free Download)

Blog Loops make it easier than ever to design article listings that look clean, adapt beautifully to different screen sizes, and are simple to customize in Divi 5. In this free pack, you’ll find 16 unique Blog Loop designs, each… Continue Reading →

Work Smarter Every Day With Clients In The Hub

If you manage multiple clients, sites, and projects, you know how easy it is for things to get messy. The new Clients setup in The Hub is all about making your daily workflow faster, simpler, and more organized. You can… Continue Reading →

How To Build A Masonry Blog With Divi 5’s Loop Builder + Grid

Thanks to new features in Divi 5, you can build modern, space-efficient blog layouts that go beyond rigid rows. Pair Loop Builder to pull in dynamic posts with CSS Grid to arrange them in flexible, masonry-style layouts that stay responsive… Continue Reading →

How To Create An Interactive Content Reveal Carousel With Divi 5

Two of Divi 5‘s latest features, Interactions and the Group Carousel module, offer a way to create interactive, sliding carousels to help you showcase products, team members, testimonials, or anything you can imagine. In this post, we’ll show you how… Continue Reading →

How To Create A Grid Layout In Divi 5 (Step-By-Step)

Divi’s new Grid Layout System opens up endless possibilities for creating intelligent layouts. For many, though, this is new territory, and wrapping one’s mind around some of these new input options could get confusing. That’s why we will walk through… Continue Reading →

How Kinsta’s hosting boosts Core Web Vitals score

Core Web Vitals (CWV) are no longer optional. They’re a central part of Google’s ranking system, shaping a site’s visibility in search results and effectiveness in capturing leads. If your pages don’t load quickly, respond smoothly, or stay visually stable,… Continue Reading →

WordPress 6.9 Release Party Schedule

This post aims to prepare a calendar with the expected start time for each release party and who is involved in the upcoming 6.9 milestone. The release party schedule will remain unchanged during the Release Candidate phase and for the… Continue Reading →

How To Create A Carousel In WordPress

Websites packed with content can quickly feel overwhelming. Carousels solve this by allowing you to display multiple pieces without cramming everything onto a single screen. People can browse at their own pace while you keep pages looking clean. We’ll show… Continue Reading →

X-post: A Month in Core – September 2025

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What’s new in Gutenberg 21.8? (8 October)

“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with… Continue Reading →

How To Build A Video Carousel In Divi 5

Divi is adding even more features to your tool belt. The native Group Carousel Module has recently been released and comes standard with every Divi 5 website. It allows you to make a completely customized carousel for testimonials, products, feature… Continue Reading →

WordPress Vulnerability Report — October 8, 2025

In this report, 99 vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed. Security patches for 32 of these plugins and themes are now available. Please run these updates as soon as possible. If you’re a Solid Security Pro user, the version management tool… Continue Reading →

Performance Chat Summary: 7 October 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter mentioned ticket #63636 related to BFCache was punted due to an unresolved Chromium bug around Clear-Site-Data: “cache” headers. @westonruter identified ticket #43258 on output buffering… Continue Reading →

Everything You Need To Know About Divi 5’s CSS Grid System

Divi 5 recently integrated a CSS Grid system that adds a full range of grid capabilities inside the Visual Builder. This new feature in Divi 5 allows anyone to build complex, responsive layouts without writing code. The CSS Grid system… Continue Reading →

Dev Blog editorial meeting summary, October 2, 2025

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blog meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress Slack. Start of the meeting on Slack Meeting facilitated by @bph Attendees: @greenshady, @bph, @webcommsat @psykro @areziaal (async) @bcworkz (async) Summary from… Continue Reading →

How to reduce bandwidth usage on your website with Kinsta’s tools

If you run a website, chances are you’ve heard the word bandwidth. It is the amount of data your site sends to visitors. This means every time a page loads, an image appears, or a video plays, it consumes bandwidth…. Continue Reading →

For “Cool Kids” Only

Stick around to the end to see an unbe-leaf-able trick for getting into the cinema for free. In today’s edition: New ccTLDs unleashed: A special gift from .us to .you. WordPress 6.9 beta coming soon: The stretchy blocks are hung… Continue Reading →

Four New ccTLDs Are Here: Expand Your Reach With Local Trust

When it comes to choosing the right domain, sometimes global reach isn’t enough, you need the credibility that comes with being local. We’re excited to announce the release of four new country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), making it easier to build… Continue Reading →

8 CSS Grid Layouts For Divi 5 (Free Download!)

Divi 5‘s new Grid layout system makes it easy to build responsive, editorial-style sections that stay perfectly aligned at every breakpoint. In this free pack, you’ll find 8 prestyled CSS Grid section designs, each crafted for clean structure, strong hierarchy,… Continue Reading →

The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?

Designers think the mockup is the product. Developers know the product lives in code. Until we kill the fantasy of the “handoff” and start building together from day one, we’re just shipping prettier silos with more emojis.

X-post: Call for Testing: Accordion Block

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How To Add Lottie Animations To WordPress Websites

Website animations meant slow load times and choppy playback, forcing you to choose between compressed GIFs that looked terrible or massive video files that sent visitors running. Lottie changed that dynamic. These tiny JSON-based motion graphics scale to any screen… Continue Reading →

How To Add Lottie Animations In Divi 5 (Native Module)

Motion grabs attention much better than static images. Many people avoid adding animated graphics because they think it means installing lots of extra plugins, downloading big files that slow things down, or learning code. Lottie animations are different. They stay… Continue Reading →

Accessibility Team Meeting Notes: October 02, 2025

On Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM GMT+8, a team meeting started in #accessibility facilitated by @muddassirnasim. You can read the full transcript or see the meeting agenda. Biweekly Team Meeting Time Update The bi-weekly chat meeting time has changed to alternate Thursdays at 15:00 UTC,… Continue Reading →

X-post: Call for Testing: Ability to Hide Blocks

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How To Extend Presets With Divi 5’s New Extend Attributes

Among the many new builder features, Divi 5 also implements several efficiency improvements. These include improvements to the UI and those that help you with a smoother workflow. Not only is Divi faster (from a technical standpoint), but it is… Continue Reading →

Are Closed Ecosystems Like Apple’s a Necessary Evil?

Closed ecosystems like Apple’s are sleek, secure, and utterly addictive—but once you’re in, escaping feels impossible. They promise a seamless experience while quietly locking you into a world where Apple decides what you can use, buy, and access, leaving innovation… Continue Reading →

Delicious Brain Bytes: FAIR 1.0 Arrives, ACF Survey Results, and Hosting a Site on a Disposable Vape

In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dive into the game-changing FAIR 1.0 decentralized package manager, explore the key data from the ACF Annual Survey, see how one developer hosted a functional website on a disposable vape, and much… Continue Reading →

How to Find Local File Inclusion (LFI) Vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins and Themes

Local File Inclusion (LFI) occurs when user-controlled input is used to build a path to a file that is then included by the application. In WordPress (and PHP web applications in general), this means values from $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, or… Continue Reading →

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