TLDR; I built a generative art creation flow that is fully autonomous: generating art daily from creative code, and publishing to Instagram and WordPress without any human input. Cool, eh? Creative coding — programming towards a visual pursuit, instead of functional, is a medium … | Continue reading
Block templates are entirely composed of Gutenberg blocks. Block templates are absolutely how most of us will interface with content within WordPress. | Continue reading
The next big shift for WordPress, nearly as monumental as the block editor itself, is a concept known as full site editing. Full site editing (FSE) is very much still experimental, but the concepts are clearly in view. Imagine being able to change your site’s header, footer, sing … | Continue reading
There’s no doubt that Gutenberg block styles and transforms are quite interesting and fun. I like that you may change the look and feel of a block with a click or two. And on the engineering side, it’s remarkably easy to extend any block with both styles and transforms. However, … | Continue reading
If you're a theme or plugin developer, now is a better time than ever to start capitalizing on the newest addition to Gutenberg: Block Patterns | Continue reading
Block variations, a new method to extending the WordPress block editor, recently landed in WordPress 5.4. The newly introduced Block Variations API provides alternate configurations of a block that are selectable when a block is first added to a page. Now block variations can be … | Continue reading
I never actually launched an “official” website for Login Designer, a plugin I built to help folks better customize their WordPress login pages. The plugin’s aging landing page clearly needed some attention. And now that Login Designer is my only active side project – I gave it j … | Continue reading
There’s been a lot of discussion around the future of WordPress themes lately due to the ongoing evolution of the block editor. Now that Gutenberg is expanding into other areas of a site (apart from post content), the definitive end of WordPress themes as we know them today is co … | Continue reading
WordCamp Europe was as just as incredible as everyone said it would be. The city of Berlin was welcoming and beautiful, the sessions were great, and there was a lot of tasty food. But best of all, the vibrant WordPress community we all know and love was there in full-force. It’s … | Continue reading
GoDaddy acquires CoBlocks, ThemeBeans, and Block Gallery have been acquired by and Rich Tabor will be joining the team as the Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience. | Continue reading