08 May 2025
WordPress bans: A story about caring
I got an email from WordPress.org yesterday. I have thoughts about that.
Articles about WordPress
10 March 2025
WordPress image permalinks: Not the cat's meow
WordPress media files are automatically given permalinks that may mess with sites URLs. Here is how I dealt with that.
16 December 2024
Red flag story time
Let's talk about red flags for a moment.
18 October 2024
An open letter about WordPress and energy
No one needs more drama, especially from a website.
02 August 2024
A few words about words
Naming things is hard. As a developer, finding the right name for a function is sometimes harder than writing the function itself.
17 March 2023
Converting static blocks to dynamic blocks
I started working with custom Gutenberg blocks sometime in late 2017. Or, perhaps, it was early 2018.
27 February 2023
Static vs. dynamic blocks: What’s the difference?
The Block Editor offers two types of blocks, static and dynamic. The difference between these two types of blocks comes down to how they are rendered on the front-end.
27 September 2022
Writing a custom WordPress block
Every so often, someone asks me about the code I write, so here is a comprehensive overview of how I write a custom block.
07 February 2022
Overriding WordPress core: Dynamic blocks edition
I was recently given the task of making the WordPress core RSS block look exactly like one of our custom blocks posts block.
27 October 2021
WordPress dynamic block registration, with special guest JSON!
WordPress 5.8 introduced the ability to use a block.json file to register and configure custom blocks.
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