WordPress Developer & Educator
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Hi, I’m Brian!
I’m helping WordPress developers and agencies make the transition into the new era of the WordPress Block Editor.
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Grow Your WordPress Dev Skills
Every week I’m sharing the best links and my latest articles and videos about all things WordPress, with a big focus on mastering the block and site editor (“Gutenberg”).
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🔗 WP Tavern: Synced Pattern Overrides punted, Font Library approved, as WordPress 6.5 nears release
The Executive Director of WordPress gives the final verdict on two 6.5 features with uncertain futures.
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🔗 WP Tavern: WordPress Developer Docs Shows Off a New Block-Based Redesign
WordPress.org relaunched its Developer Documentation with a much more intuitive homepage, cohesive navigation, and a modern design.
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🔗 WP Tavern: Gutenberg’s Project Leadership Sits Down with New Outreach Team to Discuss Problems with the Site Editor
What do you get when you put a handful of outspoken WordPress developers, agencies, product owners, and community advocates on a video call with both the Lead Architect and the Product Owner of the entire Gutenberg project? Hopefully progress.
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🔗 WP Tavern: The Block Bindings API Brings Dynamic Data to Blocks
WordPress 6.5 will introduce the Block Bindings API, laying the foundation for connecting blocks with data from custom fields and more.
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Block Bindings API & ACF Preview
On this livestream, I dig into the new Block Bindings API coming in WordPress 6.5 and see how nicely it plays with Advanced Custom Fields.
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Using Core Data and Sharing Context across WordPress Blocks
Extending WordPress blocks to talk to each other means using the WordPress Core Data packages, and hidden block features like “context”. With tools like useSelect and useDispatch, we’ll add a button to a core block that inserts new blocks into it’s parent block.
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Thoughts on Editor UI (Block Styles Manager – Build in Public Part 4)
In this update to the Block Styles Manager, we focus on some of the weird UI challenges that the block editor provides, why custom CSS isn’t already an option, and what is a block editor “plugin”.