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General thoughts about WordPress and the future of web development.


  • Blog, Tech
    February 20, 2024

    FSE Navigation Block Woes

    Navigation block feedback for the FSE team

  • Blog, Tech
    February 6, 2024

    WordCamp Phoenix 2024

    🚨 If you’re looking for my presentation from WCPHX 2023, Migrating your Workflow from ACF Flexible Content Rows to ACF Blocks, you can find that here. Custom Block Development… Using Other Blocks Learn how to build a custom block- using only other core blocks. Why? WordPress core already offers blocks for most common HTML elements-…

  • Blog, Tech
    February 5, 2024

    In Support of Canonical Plugins

    There’s a few additional features that WordPress should really offer out of the box, based on a more modern expectation of what a website could/should be.

  • Blog, Tech
    January 18, 2024

    Thoughts on Version Control for Block Themes

    How do we handle version control for ongoing development of a block-based website?

  • Blog, Tech, Video
    January 10, 2024

    The block editor is still not a page builder

    My thoughts on why the block editor is NOT a page builder. Along the way I talk about alignments, widths, semantic elements, block styles, theme, page builders, and more.

  • Blog, Tech
    November 14, 2023

    Custom Settings Screens in Block Themes

    How do you build custom settings pages for “modern” WordPress?

  • Blog, Tech, Video
    September 7, 2023

    WP Accessibility Day 2023

    On September 28th, Aurooba and I will be co-presenting at WP Accessibility Day – a free, online conference dedicated to web accessibility and WordPress.

  • Blog, Tech
    May 8, 2023

    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

  • Blog, Tech
    April 10, 2023

    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.

  • Blog, Tech
    March 1, 2023

    Embracing theme.json, kicking and screaming

    Theme.json is great for blocks, but what about themes and plugins that use good ol’ HTML?

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