Thanks Ivan, you're always such an encouraging voice in the course announcements in Udemy. I'd only bother with block themes if the person who's going to be managing the posts/pages of a site will be needing a tiny bit of creative freedom in terms of composition / mixing matching certain page elements or creating landing pages etc... if someone is just entering h1 - h6 and paragraphs and lists and a featured image here and there, I think block themes are a lot of wasted effort as a developer. But for sites with more creative freedom to mix and match components during the page/post authoring process, it's actually pretty darn ideal. Thanks again! Brad

You're welcome! Yes, the "Learn JavaScript" course was just updated 3 months ago to use the newest NPM version of packages and MongoDB and is working nicely. In the future I'd like to further update it to no longer use any Promise syntax, and instead use async await exclusively; but that's an easy fix and is just a conceptual / syntax preference. ~Brad

Sounds somewhat similar to the "My Notes" feature in my full course. We let "guest" users take up to 5 notes (a custom post type). However, those are at least registered "guest" users. It's just a matter of adding your own custom REST API endpoint, and then you can execute any PHP code you want. By letting a user that's completely logged out create a post I'd be worried about how I'd limit a malicious user from creating 100 new posts every second and flooding my database.

That's a great idea for a micro-course or new chapter; I'll have to put together some notes and an outline at some point! Thanks!

@@LearnWebCode Thanks a lot❣

@@LearnWebCodePlease make sure not to rely solely on plugin installations. Prioritize manual methods instead. Cover advanced techniques, from server configuration to code optimization. Thanks again for your valuable response!

I'm not sure that I'd say one way is better than the other, it's just nice to have an official WordPress "standardized" way of doing things. It's almost like the Interactivity API is its own JSX or HTMX; it eliminates the need for addEventListener / querySelector and just lets you declare things in your HTML and have a few raw JS functions run at the appropriate times. Personally, I'll be using the Interactivity API if I'm creating a feature that is specific to WordPress. If I'm importing / leveraging a component / feature that I've already written in plain JS for another project I'd use plain JS. But I think the main advantage of the Interactivity API is that it offers server-side rendering; it's not just client-side JS, it does both the old fashioned initial server-sent HTML AND it handles the client-side JS. So in situations where accessibility / SEO concerns are present, that's a huge advantage and another reason I'd use it.

@@LearnWebCode Thank you for the answer Brad. I want to start to create WordPress project, but it’s hard to decide which one to use. I’m not sure, maybe I’ll use Interactivity API

Thanks! I'm not worried about AI at all. I think all jobs regardless of the industry are about being a "responsibility container." The executives and management positions of companies are still going to have developers implement features because if something breaks or goes wrong they need "someone" to be responsible for things. Imagine a CEO of a company talking into a microphone telling AI what to change on an app used by billions of people. Never going to happen! Sure AI can create code but when something goes wrong it's not "responsible" for getting things fixed ASAP. At some point there's just no substitute for human responsibility. Yes, it's definitely true that with AI assistance 1 developer can get the work done that used to take 3 or 4 or 5 developers, however, I still think that's only true during very early bootstrap stages of a project while creating version 1.0 or prototypes. In the real world, even as a developer, most of my time on the job was spent in meetings, trying to understand what the client or management team is actually asking for, having them test it and figure out what they're wanting again, fixing tiny bugs, making tiny tiny adjustments, testing, testing, testing... waiting to be assigned my next task... and percentage wise an actually much smaller amount of my time was spent actually programming. So I think the impact on needing less developers is greatly overhyped. I think the recent tech layoffs are more indicative of the global economy, inflation, interest rates, etc... than just AI.

@@LearnWebCode Thank You!! You are a wonderful developer and the best instructor I have ever met👍👍 I have enrolled in your WordPress course and your teaching style encouraged me to purchase your new web development course. Because Instead of rushing things you explain to us what we are doing and why we are doing it. Never saw anyone explaining concepts this much clearly not even an instructor from bestseller and top-rated courses. Thank You for making an impactful change in education Have a great day sir 😀😀

@@GR_WebDev Thank you so much for the support and kind words! I'm glad the courses are helpful; hearing that they're useful motivates me to keep making them; I really appreciate that 🙏

​@@LearnWebCode Again Thank you A lot for making wonderful courses Waiting for The Upcoming Updates and courses.​ @LearnWebCode All The Best.

Yes, but I might ask why are you wanting to consume data on the public front-end from the REST API instead of using PHP in your render.php file? Are you using client-side JS to power a single-page-application experience? If so, I'd stay away from the Interactivity API for now. Soon, WordPress will add the "Interactivity Router" into the core of WordPress and that's when this route could be the perfect solution.

@LearnWebCode my use case will be that merchant populates and edits product data from a dashboard ui, which is exposed through a REST API. Then, SPA or multi page Web app and mobile app consume the data. Ok, I'll wait for the interactive routes. Thank you.

Yes, you can google for "Interactivity Router" to find out more, but it hasn't been added to WordPress yet, there's no 100% official supported or "final" documentation as of today, but once it does get added, yes absolutely, we can create SPAs with WordPress.

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Yes! You could create a new piece of "user meta" and then once you've shown the content to the client you could set their "hasSeenIntroContent" (made up example meta name) to true instead of false, and have it set to only display based on that true/false condition, etc...