I was thinking earlier today that in the era of full-site editing and blocks, I’ve come to heavily appreciate and rely on the various virtual meetups and webinars that showcase what’s possible with both. As WordPress continues down a path … Read More
Today, I tried to clean up a website I maintain by deleting some plugins that are no longer needed. In trying to bulk delete these plugins, I encountered an error. I discovered which plugin was the culprit, however, the error … Read More
During the State of the Word this week, Matt Mullenweg mentioned a new project housed under WordPress.org called Photos. The directory contains photographs submitted by users that are CC-0 licensed. This license essentially allows submitters to place their images in … Read More
As I was checking the backend of WP Mainline today, I noticed I had 6 plugin updates ready to be installed. I typically read the changelogs of each update to get a sense of what’s new or if there is … Read More
Task: In today’s exercise, the task is to copy three links that are listed in a Google Document that’s used to collaborate on show notes for a podcast and paste them into a List Block. Expectation: After I create a … Read More
Josh Pollock, co-founder of CalderaWP which was acquired in 2019 by Saturday Drive, has announced a new project he’s working on called Plugin Machine aimed at making WordPress plugin developers’ lives easier. In light of recent conversations in the WordPress … Read More
Last week, I read two articles that discussed the writing experience in WordPress. The first was published by Justin Ferriman where he describes that Gutenberg at this point is not a good solution for building pages or writing content. “What … Read More
Shaun Andrews, a Digital Designer at Automattic, has been one of my favorite Twitter accounts to follow as of late. He’s been working on various ideas and concepts and throwing them onto Twitter for folks to see and discuss. Here … Read More
In late August, Matias Ventura, Lead architect of Gutenberg, started a debate on GitHub on renaming Reusable Blocks. Reusable blocks have a long history now. The started as “saved blocks” and went through some renaming iterations until we settled on … Read More
I feel like I’ve written this post before but I’m in the mood to write about it again. I’m talking about my relationship with the sidebar in the post editor that stores all of the tools related to a Post … Read More