Category: Web Development
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My WordPress story
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Continue Reading: My WordPress storyWordPress is celebrating its 15th anniversary on Sunday. In honor of this occasion, here’s my story about how I came to use and love WordPress.
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Should Gutenberg blocks be in plugins or themes?
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Continue Reading: Should Gutenberg blocks be in plugins or themes?Gutenberg is still going through the finishing stages before it’s released in WordPress core. But there’s still a question about Gutenberg blocks that I’m not really seeing anyone answer. Should blocks be placed in plugins or themes?
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How Gutenberg is from a developer’s perspective
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Continue Reading: How Gutenberg is from a developer’s perspectiveWe’re still in this sort of waiting period for Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor. If you’re a WordPress developer, however, you need to be learning how to develop with it now.
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How to get access to alpha, beta and release candidate versions of WordPress
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Continue Reading: How to get access to alpha, beta and release candidate versions of WordPressTesting pre-release versions of WordPress is a key part of making sure major releases, and your site, run smoothly. But not a whole lot of people know about it. So here’s how to test pre-release versions on your staging or development sites.
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More thoughts on the Gutenberg editor
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Continue Reading: More thoughts on the Gutenberg editorGutenberg is coming whenever WordPress 5.0 is released. It’s come a long way from when it was released as a plugin last year. Like everyone else, I have thoughts on the new editor.
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Changing a shortcode to a dynamic Gutenberg block
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Continue Reading: Changing a shortcode to a dynamic Gutenberg blockGutenberg is coming, and it will shake up the ecosystem. One of the biggest changes will come with shortcodes, since the TinyMCE editor will be no more. But it’s pretty easy to turn shortcodes into the blocks with dynamic blocks.
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Adding filter and action hooks to your WordPress plugin
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Continue Reading: Adding filter and action hooks to your WordPress pluginWordPress is known for its customizations, but sometimes as plugin or theme developer, it can be tricky to figure out how to let your users add in customizations. That’s where filters and hooks come into play.
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Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress plugin
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Continue Reading: Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress pluginA dedicated webpage for your WordPress plugin gives you more credibility in the flooded plugin market and give your users a place to get help. So why haven’t you created a page for your plugin?
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Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress theme
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Continue Reading: Why you should create a webpage for your WordPress themeIf you have a WordPress theme, whether or not it’s in the theme directory, you need to have a dedicated webpage for that theme.
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What is SCSS and how to use it
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Continue Reading: What is SCSS and how to use itIn the final tutorial on npm, Gulp and SCSS, we finally get to the fun part. SCSS is an amazing tool that makes writing CSS much better and quicker. And you won’t want to go back to normal CSS again.