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How I Built It: Post Title Paragraph Option
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Continue Reading: How I Built It: Post Title Paragraph OptionThe 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.
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How I Built It: Grid Block
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Continue Reading: How I Built It: Grid BlockThere 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.
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Tools I Use for Web Development
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Continue Reading: Tools I Use for Web DevelopmentThere 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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How I Made the Columns Blocks Responsive for the Crosswinds Framework
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Continue Reading: How I Made the Columns Blocks Responsive for the Crosswinds FrameworkOne 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.
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What I Learned from Building the Crosswinds Framework
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Continue Reading: What I Learned from Building the Crosswinds FrameworkI 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.
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How I Built the Crosswinds Framework
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Continue Reading: How I Built the Crosswinds FrameworkThe 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.
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Wishlist for the WordPress Site Editor as it Heads to Phase 3
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Continue Reading: Wishlist for the WordPress Site Editor as it Heads to Phase 3As 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.
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My WordPress Origin Story
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Continue Reading: My WordPress Origin StoryWith 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.
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How I built the Featured Content Block plugin
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Continue Reading: How I built the Featured Content Block pluginIn 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.
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Uploading it to the Theme Directory
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Uploading it to the Theme DirectoryWe 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…
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Theme Style Variations
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating Theme Style VariationsWe’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…
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Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating the Archive and 404 Templates
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Continue Reading: Creating a WordPress Block Theme — Creating the Archive and 404 TemplatesNext 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…
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