In this article for WPTavern Chris Van Patten shares his experience with contributing to the Gutenberg project. The original article was a Twitter thread, but it’s nicer reading a proper long form piece.For Chris, the experience of contributing to Gutenberg...
I really like the Smashing Magazine website. Unlike a lot of tutorial sites they don’t keep repeating the same basic content and focus on more challenging and newer things. So when I was contacted by Vitaly and asked if I...
Gutenberg Cloud is a project for creating open source Gutenberg Blocks that work with both Drupal and WordPress that is created by web agency Frontkom.The team at Frontkom made a version of Gutenberg that works with Drupal. Since Gutenberg is...
I’m working on a new WordPress theme designed for Gutenberg, however Gutenberg isn’t finished, and there are elements that won’t work until the plugin is merged with core.One such issue, that I ran into this weekend, is that get_post_gallery() doesn’t...
I have noticed one of the most frequent complaints about Gutenberg is the fact that paragraphs are treated as individual blocks. This disrupts the writing flow and makes normal text operations more cumbersome.I was thinking about this the other day...
Patreon is a really interesting platform that helps creators earn money. I recently read an article about how a French tutor increased revenues by using the Patreon WordPress plugin.I’d heard of Patreon before, and had even considered using it, but...
I recently read an article title Google AMP Can Go To Hell, all about how Google AMP is an attempt by Google to control the internet entirely.When I first saw this article I thought it was going to be a...
I was recently reading the article Via Negativa by Adrian Zumbrunnen and found it a really nice reflection on the reasons for creating a simple product.Minimalism in web design is an evergreen trend but how many of us have actually...
This week a pull request was made on the Chromium project that, in certain situations, blocks Javascript from loading on 2G connections.Currently the Gutenberg editor doesn’t work without Javascript; it doesn’t even have a noscript tag.Chrome for Android may start...
Gutenberg is slowly marching towards a releasable version but has anyone tested it on a real world project? There have been a few announced but nothing significant (that I’ve seen). I’ve integrated it into a couple of themes, and mostly...
Mythic is a new starter theme by Justin Tadlock (with help from his friends/ collaborators). The project is designed to introduce a fully modern theme development process.It follows best practices for coding, and makes use of things like npm (or...
WordPress 4.9.8 was released last week and Gutenberg plugin installations have rocketed because of the ‘try Gutenberg’ prompt that was included. This post on WPCouple shows some of the fantastic positive reactions Gutenberg has received.Of course, it’s not all rosey....
I have thought quite a lot about accessibility in recent years. I am definitely not an expert, and I am sure there’s a lot of areas I could improve, but I always strive to make my projects as accessible as...
JavaScript is simple, or at least it used to be. If you’ve done any programming, and you know how to use Google then you can program in JavaScript. Of course, to make it more powerful we have to complicate things.We...
It was WPCampus last weekend, an education focused WordPress conference. There’s a lot of talks about using WordPress in Universities and other educational establishments – but there’s also a lot of more traditional WordCamp subjects.One presentation in particular caught my...
Now you have no reason not to make your website(s) secure!Troy Hunt is Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security. Online security, technology and “The Cloud”. And he made have I been pwned, an online database/API allowing you to...
Last week the UK Government design team published their website design system publicly and it’s a really good example of a huge public company trying to create consistency, and ease development, on a massive project.I really like that the design...
4 years ago I uploaded a video of an animation creator website I was building called Brush Ninja. Then mostly forgot about it. A video of the original version of Brush Ninja from over 4 years ago. The project was...
When making WordPress themes there’s 2 functions that are really handy. is_home and is_front_page. I use them all the time in both themes and plugins. But I can never remember the difference between them.is_home vs is_front_pageOn the surface they are...
In January I published Colour, a simple app that analyses the colours used in a website and suggests ways you can merge the colour to make the design simpler.I don’t know if it’s an age thing, or a generational thing,...
When I wrote about using Github for Copywriters I wanted to keep things simple so that my copywriter friend could edit website content easily without having to worry about using Github properly. The problem is he now wants to create...