One of my favorite WordPress tools is WP-CLI, the wp command-line tool. The tool allows you to do numerous things from installing WordPress, to upgrading, installing, and activating plugins and themes, configuring installs, and even generating dummy content. I’ll include a few of the most common things, check out the official WP-CLI documentation for more. […]
Block patterns are great, one of the features I’m most excited for in WordPress. As block patterns mature and people adopt, they will be one of the best ways to share designs and templates. I’m looking forward to a rich repository to pull design ideas, the pattern directory is already filling up. Block patterns aren’t […]
I recently had the need to update Gutenberg packages that are in WordPress core for a point release. This required setting up a development environment where I can test Gutenberg code in WordPress but without using the Gutenberg plugin. This is not something most developers will need to do, it is my first time after […]
Did you know the create-block script can support templates? With templates you can create your own files to be generated for a new block. I see this being quite useful especially if you are an agency or business that creates many custom blocks, or for developers to share different block starting points. What is the […]
WordPress 5.8 introduced theme.json, a way to specify styles to be generated for the editor and front-end. Theme.json is part of a suite of full site editing tools being developed for WordPress. You can start using it now in existing themes. Let’s dive in and show a few things you can do with it. Colors […]
There is a good discussion on modern WordPress development and a general lament about it’s complexity and change in the developer experience. Chris Wiegman tweeted out The deeper I get with modern WP dev the more I understand why newer devs don’t like to work on it. This is not the same project as it […]
In WordPress 5.8, releasing on July 20, there is a much easier way to conditionally load block assets. This is the loading of JavaScript and/or stylesheets on the frontend only if the block is shown on the page. I wrote twice previously about solving this same problem. The first time, I solved checking if each […]
Another post in my series on contributing to the WordPress Gutenberg project. This post complements my Good First Issue post that focused more on a coding contribution. Here I take a step back and focus on documentation and dive deeper into the GitHub pull request process. Find an Issue Browse the Documentation label on GitHub […]
I’ve been reading and learning Typescript recently, and I quite like it. The added type safety is a great feature to help create more error-free and stable code. You can read more about Typescript here. This got me thinking that it should be possible to create a WordPress Block in Typescript, which of course it […]
Another look at conditionally loading block assets for WordPress blocks, assets being JavaScript and CSS files loaded by the browser. In the previous post, I solved using heavy-handed testing of each post in the loop checking to see if it contains our block to load the assets. The company I work for runs a few […]