Here I share my latest writing, tech videos, podcast appearances, and scribbled-down thoughts on everything from WordPress and tech to just regular life stuff.
I also co-host a weekly WordPress development show/podcast called viewSource. You can find my writing on industry publications like MasterWP and The WP Minute and even WordPress.org.
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🎙️ Podcast
A weekly conversation around tech, web development, and WordPress with me and cohost Aurooba Ahmed.
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📺 Videos
WordPress video tutorials around advanced development topics like custom blocks and Gutenberg.
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Custom Responsive Settings in Gutenberg Blocks
Add custom settings fields to any Gutenberg block. In this tutorial, we add a responsive display setting to Gutenberg using 10up’s Block Extension API, the WordPress Scripts build process, and the WordPress Base Styles Sass library.
ACF Blocks Post Carousel Tutorial
We’re building a post carousel block using ACF Blocks. We’re doing everything from start to finish, including loading a third-party resource (Flickity) and default Gutenberg supports like colors and alignment. No build process, no fancy JavaScript, just Advanced Custom Fields.
Managing Images in your Custom Gutenberg Block
Let’s build a custom WordPress block with a focus on editable image fields. Using the block-components library from 10up and a custom image function I wrote this year, we’ll go through every file in our custom block together.
Building the WordPress Icon Library
Last week I was inspired to quickly code up a one-pager: a searchable guide to the WordPress icon library
Getting WordPress Media Library images in JavaScript
A tiny JavaScript replacement for wp_get_attachment_image.
🔗 In the Loop: Learning Out Loud
Aurooba and I talk to Cory and Phil about our podcast, viewSource— and we talk about why we started it, who it’s for, and why all of us keep putting ourselves out there, learning WordPress in public.
Styling the separator block in five attempts
Exploring different ways to change the default color of the Separator block in WordPress, including using regular CSS, scoped CSS, theme.json, and block-specific stylesheets.
🔗 Press the Issue: Openverse, Block Styling and WordPress 6.2
In this episode, Rob and Brian review the biggest new features of WordPress 6.2, the integration of the Openverse image library into WordPress Core, discuss whether “Full Site Editing” is really ready to move out of Beta, and whether the Openverse is proof that web privacy regulations have become a hindrance rather than a help […]