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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.
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Building a Block Styles Manager – Episode 1
Episode 1 of my YouTube Build in Public series building a block styles manager for the WordPress block editor.
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How to Build Dynamic (PHP) Blocks in WordPress
Let’s build a dynamic block for WordPress. Along the way we’ll discuss the difference between static and dynamic blocks, when to use them, WP_Query, what ServerSideRender is and what the best approach for performance is.
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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.
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Adding Custom Fields (Attributes) to Core Blocks
Using just three filters, we’ll add a few custom fields to the core “Button” block in WordPress that will update the button’s content on the front end.