Cory and Phil interview Aurooba Ahmed of Aurooba Makes, a full-stack WordPress developer, WordCamp speaker, and serial plugin, tool, and course author.

We talk about developing for Gutenberg, goings on with ACF and whether it’s still a must-use plugin (pardon the pun), the myriad of free plugins and tools that Aurooba has built for the good of all, and a teaser of some resources about React for WordPress that she’ll be releasing soon.

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related that you’d like to hear us discuss, send an email to podcast@blackbird.digital. You can also find us on Twitter as @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Aurooba’s website: https://aurooba.com

Auroobas Twitter: https://twitter.com/aurooba

(09:53 ) WPEngine acquires ACF: https://wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-acquires-delicious-brains-plugins-including-advanced-custom-fields/

(14:30 ) ACF blocks dev preview: https://github.com/AdvancedCustomFields/acf/issues/654

(17:15 ) Aurooba’s CPT composer package: https://github.com/aurooba/cpt

(24:05 ) Super List Block plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/superlist-block/

(29:51 ) Replacing core block styles: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/35848#issuecomment-1017606735

(31:16 ) QuickPost plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/quickpost/

(43:46 ) QuickPost plagiarized twitter thread: https://twitter.com/aurooba/status/1524113112110026752

(47:26 ) Plagiarism resolution twitter thread: https://twitter.com/aurooba/status/1521564150211629056

## Upcoming WP Events

WordCamp US 2022, Sept 9–11: https://us.wordcamp.org/2022/