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Adding Options to Custom Blocks with Block Supports | Block Creator 02
In this lesson, I’ll pick up where we left off with our basic static block from Lesson 01. If you haven’t completed that lesson go ahead and take…
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How to Build a Simple Static Custom Block in WordPress | Block Creator 01
Welcome to the Block Creator series! If you haven’t looked at the course introduction feel free to take a moment and check it out before jumping into this…
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WordPress Block Creator Course – Introduction and Local Development Setup
The WordPress block editor has had somewhat rocky adoption over the last several years, but once you learn to unlock the power of creating your own custom block…
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Eleventy (11ty), Vite, Tailwind, and Alpine.js – Rapid static site starter framework
Eleventy is one of my favorite web development tools to work with because it is so fast to get started with, but can handle a surprising amount of…
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How To Create WordPress Patterns Easily with Pattern Manager from WP Engine
WordPress patterns are an amazing tool to provide clients with a simple yet powerful site building interface out of the box. Until pretty recently though, they have been…
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How to safely store API keys and access protected external APIs in WordPress
I recently built a custom block on WordPress that allowed the content editor to fetch data from the google API to populate some attributes automatically. Doing this required…
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Custom Sidebars and Post Meta in Gutenberg – Build a Location Map Plugin
One of the areas where the WordPress Gutenberg editor gets a lot of complaints is that it doesn’t really handle structured data. A great example is a restaurant…
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Build a Custom Settings Page within WordPress – Announcement Banner Plugin
In this tutorial we’ll walk through creating a custom plugin with an admin settings page and cover the WordPress Options API. We’ll be building an announcement banner plugin…
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Building a Random “Post of the Day” Block for Gutenberg from Scratch – Part 2
Last week I published a tutorial on building a “post of the day” block that will randomly pick a post to display and automatically switch it up every…
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Building a Random “Post of the Day” Block for Gutenberg from Scratch
In this tutorial we’ll build a custom block for Gutenberg that will display a “post of the day” that gets randomly generated every 24 hours. It will be…
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Add Custom Metadata to Taxonomy Terms in WordPress Without Plugins
In this quick walkthrough I want to go through a simple setup for creating a custom taxonomy and adding our own metadata field. This is a common task…
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How to Split Theme.json into Multiple Files with WordPress
With each release, WordPress is giving more and more power to the theme.json file. The future of WordPress theme development may largely skip CSS with most developer styling…
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The Best New Features of WordPress 6.1 for Agencies and Freelancers
WordPress 6.1 was released earlier this week and it features some much needed updates to Gutenberg and block themes that make them much friendlier to agency teams. Client…
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Building React Powered Plugins with the WordPress Data Layer
I’m super excited for this one! In this write up we’ll take a look at creating a React powered plugin for WordPress and interact with the data layer…
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Fluid Typography Primer for WordPress Developers
In this post we’ll go over the basics of fluid typography, as well as how to implement it in a modern WordPress theme. If you’re someone who is…
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How to Customize the Gutenberg Block Editor When Developing WordPress Themes
The Gutenberg editor in WordPress is designed for composing content quickly, and once you are used to it I think it does that job very well. For those…
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ACF Block.json – The Ultimate Custom Block Development Workflow with WordPress Scripts
Earlier this week ACF announced version 6.0 with a refreshed UI and a new way to register custom ACF blocks using the block.json file. This mirrors how native…
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Switching ACF Custom Blocks to Block.json with ACF 6.0
ACF 6.0 has been released! Included in this version we get a bunch of really nice UI upgrades for setting up fields. In addition, there are some big…
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Better Custom Class Management in Gutenberg
Recently I’ve been working on some WordPress projects that use utility class libraries like bootstrap and Tailwind css, this often means applying some custom classes within the Gutenberg…