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Using Block Variations with the Block Bindings API
Let’s dig into the new Block Bindings API in WordPress 6.5 – with a focus on how to offer a “no-code” experience for your users with Block Variations.
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Rebuilding my website with Ollie – LIVE
A one hour livestream as I work through building my own personal blog (this very website) using the Ollie block theme.
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Aurooba on JS Essentials for WP Devs
Aurooba joins me to talk about her free course: JavaScript Essentials for WP Devs.
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Block Bindings API & ACF Preview
On this livestream, I dig into the new Block Bindings API coming in WordPress 6.5 and see how nicely it plays with Advanced Custom Fields.
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How the block editor handles CSS (Block Styles Manager Ep 5)
Registering block styles, inline block styles, tree-shaking, the “Styles Engine” – how does the block editor actually load CSS and is this tool going to be good for performance? Plus a quick update on the Block Styles Manager user interface.
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Using Core Data and Sharing Context across WordPress Blocks
Extending WordPress blocks to talk to each other means using the WordPress Core Data packages, and hidden block features like “context”. With tools like useSelect and useDispatch, we’ll add a button to a core block that inserts new blocks into it’s parent block.
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Thoughts on Editor UI (Block Styles Manager – Build in Public Part 4)
In this update to the Block Styles Manager, we focus on some of the weird UI challenges that the block editor provides, why custom CSS isn’t already an option, and what is a block editor “plugin”.
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Building a Block Styles Manager – Episode 3
Custom data stores in WordPress / the block editor. Hard stuff (for me at least). In this status update on the Block Styles Manager, I talk about custom REST API endpoints, handling data, and saving CSS directly to your filesystem.
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WP REST API and Postman – Using Application Passwords
What are Application Passwords in WordPress and how can I use them? Let’s dig into the WP REST API and how you can make authenticated API calls from tools like Postman (and any other code base) by using core WordPress’s Application Passwords feature.
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Block Styles Manager for WordPress – Episode 2
Episode 2 of my YouTube Build in Public series building a block styles manager for the WordPress block editor.