18 October 2024
An open letter about WordPress and energy
No one needs more drama, especially from a website.
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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.
04 May 2021
WordPress customization: Supports and variations and JSON. Oh my!
WordPress has come out with so many different ways to customize block editor.
12 November 2020
Creating block.json for a WordPress block
This week, I added my very first block to the WordPress block directory.
20 June 2020
The case of the disappearing Gutenberg
Once upon a time, there was a WordPress post editor that discovered it had turned into a simple HTML editor.
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