Those of you who read my blog regularly will probably know, that I use Gravity Forms in many projects. I really like the huge feature set of the plugin (and it’s add-ons), but even more than that, the possibilities to … Read more →
After we have seen in the last block post, how we can use modern JavaScript to write a block, I want to show why we would really want to do that by adding some options to our block. I’ll show … Read more →
I’m currently on vacation and had some tech free days, so my blog post comes a bit later this week. In the previous post, I’ve shown you, how you can write a block without any ES6/React code. This week I … Read more →
Earlier this week, Topher asked an interesting question on Twitter regarding the current state of block development: This made me think about I would answer this question. When I first started with block development, I primarily wrote “server side rendered … Read more →
WordPress comes with different roles, and it’s usually best not to give everyone the “Administrator” role. The next best role would be the “Editor” role, which enables a user to edit all contents, their own one and the content from … Read more →
Updating WordPress and it’s plugins and themes is usually straightforward. You navigate to the “Dashboard | Updates” and update the components. If an error happens while updating WordPress Core or plugins/themes, WordPress can usually handle this and roll back, but … Read more →
When using custom JavaScript and CSS files, you usually use the wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style() functions. If not, please start doing so. Using them is really easy, but when it comes to effective usage, there are some little things to keep … Read more →
I really like using GravityForms to create highly dynamic forms. The form builder offer a wide range of possibilities. But sometimes you need to use some code to hook into parts of the form processing. In this blog post I … Read more →
In a Facebook group someone wanted to know how to order the posts on a category page alphabetically. In this blog post want to show, how you can easily sort posts on a category (or any other) archive page. Sorting … Read more →
When developing projects, I often use Custom Post Types (CPT). In a new project, the content of the entries were build completely with core blocks. In the past, I typically used custom meta fields and a fixed page template. But … Read more →