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  • 🔗 WPCoffeeTalk: Brian Coords

    A brief yet caffeinated chat with WP all-star Michelle Frechette on her podcast, WPCoffeeTalk.

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    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.

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    Build Custom Blocks Using InnerBlocks

    A great way to start building blocks for WordPress is using InnerBlocks. Group other blocks together and easily add styles and settings.

  • 20 Years of WordPress

    As anniversaries go, I’m really not sentimental. My wife just had to remind me that we’re hitting ours this week. I’m glad WordPress is sticking around, though, and I do appreciate the schmoozy posts and all that. If I have to pick one anniversary to try to remember, it should probably be my own wedding.…

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    Custom Lists in WordPress with Register Block Style

    Register a custom block style in Gutenberg with simple PHP and CSS- no JavaScript or build process required.

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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.

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    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.

  • WordPress Icons and a YouTube Video

    What a fun week in WordPress. The twentieth anniversary of WP is kicking off with the #WP20 campaign and you can feel the community coming out of it’s winter cave and engaging with each other more. Not always in the most positive way, but overall it’s been fun to see the conversations pick up on…

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    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.

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    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