Should Gutenberg blocks be in plugins or themes?
May 21, 2018
WordPress
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?
Read This Post How Gutenberg is from a developer’s perspective
May 16, 2018
WordPress
We’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.
Read This Post How to get access to alpha, beta and release candidate versions of WordPress
May 14, 2018
WordPress
Testing 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.
Read This Post More thoughts on the Gutenberg editor
April 27, 2018
WordPress
Gutenberg 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.
Read This Post Changing a shortcode to a dynamic Gutenberg block
April 25, 2018
WordPress
Gutenberg 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.
Read This Post Adding filter and action hooks to your WordPress plugin
April 23, 2018
WordPress
WordPress 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.
Read This Post How to add a WordPress admin page to add data to a custom table
January 17, 2018
WordPress
So you have a custom table, but how do you get data in there the WordPress way? This tutorial shows you how to create an admin page and insert data into that table.
Read This Post Why you should create a theme for the WordPress theme directory
January 8, 2018
WordPress
If you have a goal of getting better at web development, there’s no better way to accomplish that by creating a WordPress theme for the directory.
Read This Post A simple guide to adding a WP REST API controller
December 22, 2017
WordPress
The WP REST API is still a hot item in WordPress core. And this tutorial will show you how easy it is to make your own REST API endpoint for your plugin and custom data.
Read This Post What I learned in a year with Sports Bench
December 6, 2017
WordPress
It’s been about a year since I released Sports Bench, a plugin/theme package that keeps track of sports stats for your league. So what have I learned in the last year with it?
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So we’ve learned how to create webpages, style them, add content and change the page. Now it’s time to start learning SQL, Standard Query Language, and how we can use databases to bring dynamic data to the page. Today we’ll go over we can use AJAX, PHP and JavaScript to get data from the database […]
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