I really like Pods and need to find more reasons to use it. New release is out with several fixes and additions.
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TL;DR: Though knowing how to use a debugger is useful, it can be overkill for some of the work that we’re doing. In this article, we’ll look and see what debugging functionality Ray provides and how we can use it when traditional debugging may be overkill.
WP CLI is pretty slick as is but Alain Schlesser has this curated list of excellent addons/plugins for WP CLI. I had to write my own version of a WP CLI years ago when I ran nearly 400 WordPress sites for 451 Press. I'm glad that this is now part of WP Core there's some really cool extras in this collection.
While I try to support all the core blocks in the themes I build, sometimes it makes sense to remove a few.
Typically it’s because I built a custom block that’s similar to a core block while addressing the design and functional requirements of the theme. Most of my themes include a “Content and Image” block that’s similar to the “Media & Text” block but it uses the theme’s grid layout