Category: Web Development
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Theme JSON and Styling
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Theme JSON and StylingSo we are continuing on in our efforts to create a WordPress block theme. This time we’re getting started with the theme.json file. This is a pretty powerful tool that does a lot of the styling for us. And it removes a lot of the CSS that us theme developers used to have to write…
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How to make the navigation menu creation experience better in your WordPress block theme
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Continue Reading: How to make the navigation menu creation experience better in your WordPress block themeCreating blocks themes is great and pretty easy. But creating navigation menus is not quite as fun. This one line of code will help you get the old menus screen back to make it easier to manage your menus.
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Intro and Design
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Intro and DesignIn this series, I’m going to walk through how I created my first block theme, Semplice Monospazio. In this introductory video, we’re going to walk through the designs I created for the theme and I’ll explain more about what I’m trying to do with this theme.
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My experience creating a full site editing theme for the WordPress theme directory
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Continue Reading: My experience creating a full site editing theme for the WordPress theme directoryIn June 2022, I released my first WordPress block theme to the theme directory for people to use. It was an attempt to really understand what it’s like to create a theme in a full site editing world. Here’s what I learned about that.
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Developing with WP Rig
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Continue Reading: Developing with WP RigIf you’re looking for a great starter theme to build your next WordPress theme on, you might want to check out WP Rig. It’s got everything a developer could want.
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How to preload your CSS and why you should
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Continue Reading: How to preload your CSS and why you shouldYou’re trying speed up the page load time of your website and you’ve tried everything. But it’s still not quick enough. Have you tried preloading your CSS and JavaScript resources?
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The value of open source
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Continue Reading: The value of open sourceWhat’s the value in using and contributing to an open source project? Well beyond the price, it’s really quite remarkable.
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Creating Gutenberg blocks with Advanced Custom Fields
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Continue Reading: Creating Gutenberg blocks with Advanced Custom FieldsPlaying with Gutenberg can be fun. But creating blocks in JavaScript can be tough. But ACF will be giving developers help in the future.
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After WordPress 5.0 everyone needs to take a breath
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Continue Reading: After WordPress 5.0 everyone needs to take a breathWordPress 5.0 came out last week and was met with almost every emotion under the sun. There’s at least a bit of a divide in the community. So now what?
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Object-oriented programming in a Gutenberg world
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Continue Reading: Object-oriented programming in a Gutenberg worldSo now that we know why object-oriented programming might be good for your next WordPress plugin, let’s try it with a plugin that creates custom Gutenberg blocks.