Author: Brian Coords
Most of my writing these days is happening over at MasterWP.
🔗 In The Loop: Mastering Theme Development Podcast
A fantastic conversation with Cory and Phil from In The Loop all about building custom WordPress themes in the Gutenberg era.
🔗 Press the Issue: What’s Exciting about WordPress 6.1? Podcast
Got to talk about all things WordPress 6.1 / Gutenberg with my good friend Teron Bullock.
“Normal” width websites in the block editor
What is going on with max-widths and alignments in the block editor? Is there a method behind this madness?
Recreating the Quick Draft dashboard widget using the WordPress Data Layer
Thanks to this great course on Learn WordPress, I’ve recently been inspired by the potential of the WordPress Data Layer. The best way I can describe the data layer is to imagine having a complete UI framework of WordPress components- then combining that with a complete React.js/Redux JavaScript framework hand-tailored to the WordPress REST API. […]
WordPress’ Secret World of JavaScript
A recent course about the WordPress Data Layer may have changed my mind about the potential of JavaScript in WordPress.
🔗 WP Builds: How might we fix the WordPress notifications problem? Podcast
I’ve been a Nathan Wrigley fan since my days as a big Beaver Builder user, so I was stoked to sit down with him. We recorded this a while back and mostly discussed the WP Feature Notifications project I’ve been working on for WordPress.
Sending an email in WordPress using your WooCommerce email design
Supposedly, this is what the wc_mail() function is supposed to do: help you send an email the way you might with wp_mail() BUT include your fancy WooCommerce template/design/styles around the content. Well, it didn’t seem to be working for us, so after breaking it apart, we took the core function and wrote what we think […]
Writing a tiny full site editing plugin
One of my largest issues with the full site editing user experience is the difficulty in transitioning from the backend to the frontend of your website. If you’re in the site editor, there’s no admin bar, no single click to get back to the front of your website. It requires multiple full-page reloads. I find […]
🔗 Press the Issue: Does Market Share Matter? Podcast
This was a fun chat with Rob about the whole “market share” and “WordPress economy” discussions going on.
🔗 WP-Tonic “This Week In WordPress & Tech” 8/12/22 Podcast
Last week I joined the WP-Tonic roundtable again to talk about WordPress stuff. Everyone on this episode is a smart WordPress player but we also went off the rails reacting to some of the recent events in WordPress.