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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.
Newsletter
Every week or so I collect my latests posts, along with a few links from the WordPress and webdev ecosystem, and send it to your inbox. (Browse the archive here)