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    Block Editor, Web Development, WordPress

    How I Built It: Post Title Paragraph Option

    Jacob Martella

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    February 21, 2024

    The WordPress core blocks are great, but the post title block doesn’t have a paragraph option. Here’s how I was able to make it an option in the Crosswinds Blocks plugin.

    Continue Reading: How I Built It: Post Title Paragraph Option
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    Plugin Development, Web Development, WordPress

    How I Built It: Grid Block

    Jacob Martella

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    February 14, 2024

    There are a lot of great core blocks with the WordPress block and site editors. But a grid block is missing. So when I built the Crosswinds Blocks plugin, I wanted to add in a grid block. Here’s how I built it.

    Continue Reading: How I Built It: Grid Block
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    Web Development

    Tools I Use for Web Development

    Jacob Martella

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    February 7, 2024

    There are a lot of tools you need on your tool belt as a web developer. Obviously you need a computer, but you also need a code editor, local development environment and so much more. So here’s what’s on my web development tool belt.

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    Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    How I Made the Columns Blocks Responsive for the Crosswinds Framework

    Jacob Martella

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    January 31, 2024

    One of the features of the Crosswinds Framework base theme is better responsiveness for the columns block in WordPress core. Here’s how I made the block look better at tablet screen sizes.

    Continue Reading: How I Made the Columns Blocks Responsive for the Crosswinds Framework
  • a macbook pro showing the homepage of the Crosswinds Framework demo site while sitting on a table next to a cup of coffee and a biscuit
    Plugin Development, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    What I Learned from Building the Crosswinds Framework

    Jacob Martella

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    January 24, 2024

    I spent over nine months last year building the Crosswinds Framework, a combination of a WordPress block theme, WordPress block plugin and a suite of child themes built for specific niches. Here’s what I learned while building the Framework.

    Continue Reading: What I Learned from Building the Crosswinds Framework
  • Screenshots of the homepages from the Crosswinds Framework child theme demo sites
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    How I Built the Crosswinds Framework

    Jacob Martella

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    January 17, 2024

    The vast majority of my freelance time in 2023 was spent building the Crosswinds Framework, a WordPress project that includes a blocks plugin, a base block theme and a suite of child themes built for specific niches. Here’s how I built the Crosswinds Framework.

    Continue Reading: How I Built the Crosswinds Framework
  • Person sitting at a wooden desk with a laptop and papers and the WordPress site editor on the laptop screen
    Full Site Editing, Web Development, WordPress

    Wishlist for the WordPress Site Editor as it Heads to Phase 3

    Jacob Martella

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    August 23, 2023

    As the WordPress Gutenberg project finishes phase two of the project and moves on to collaboration and phase three, here are some things I would still like to see in the site (and block) editor.

    Continue Reading: Wishlist for the WordPress Site Editor as it Heads to Phase 3
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    Web Development, WordPress

    My WordPress Origin Story

    Jacob Martella

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    August 15, 2023

    With WordCamp US coming up, now is about as good of a time as any to talk about my WordPress journey to where I am today.

    Continue Reading: My WordPress Origin Story
  • The Featured Content Block in the block editor in WordPress
    Plugin Development, Web Development, WordPress

    How I built the Featured Content Block plugin

    Jacob Martella

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    December 1, 2022

    In November I released my first dedicated block plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. This plugin allows someone to select a specific post or other post type item to show on a page and customize how it looks. Here’s how I built it.

    Continue Reading: How I built the Featured Content Block plugin
  • Block Theme - Uploading it to the Directory
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Uploading it to the Theme Directory

    Jacob Martella

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    October 13, 2022

    We are now basically done with creating our WordPress block theme! All that’s left is to give it a few more tests, bundle it up and submit it to the WordPress theme directory for review. So in today’s video we’ll do just that. And I’ll give just a few pointers for how to make your…

    Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Uploading it to the Theme Directory
  • Block Theme - Theme Style Variations
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Theme Style Variations

    Jacob Martella

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    October 6, 2022

    We’re almost done with creating our full site editing theme. But before we get it ready to submit to the WordPress theme directory, we first need to add one more thing: style variations. Style variations allow theme developers to quickly create variations of their themes with different colors, fonts and other elements. We used to…

    Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Theme Style Variations
  • Block Theme - Archive and 404 templates
    Full Site Editing, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating the Archive and 404 Templates

    Jacob Martella

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    September 29, 2022

    Next up in our path to building a new WordPress block theme, we need to create our archive template and our 404 template. And believe it or not, both of these will take us almost no time to build. So join me as we start to wrap up building Semplice Monospazio and learn how you…

    Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating the Archive and 404 Templates
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