Gutenberg is at it’s core a React app. If you don’t know React, you better react to the changing landscape and go pick out a crash course in React if you want to be relevant in WordPress development going forward. Well, to be fair I’m not saying that is exactly how it is (or how…
By default when you run npx @wordpress/create-block you’ll get a preformed block with a smiley face icon like this: In the method of Guteberg block registration that the NPM @wordpress/create-block uses the arguments are stored in JSON at in block.json. One option worth mentioning is that you can use any of the available dashicons for…
If you’re like us (smart) then you love ClickUp. Do you remember when Basecamp was the big thing in project management software? Good times, good times… but the world of collaboration has evolved, and the latest “big thing” is really big. Arguably the best software humanity has ever produced. Is that something a fanboy would…
We have been working a lot more with Laravel lately and one of the most enjoyable aspects of that has been using the Eloquent ORM. Being able to effortlessly fetch data from the database makes me realize how relatively painstaking it is to handle similar work in WordPress. Basic post fetching is simple enough in…
Ever feel tired of programming in a 2d world? Want to live in a 3d world that looks like the world you already live in (earth)? The obvious thing to do, short of stepping outside is to download Unreal Engine and start learning C++. Seriously though, as somebody who has dabbled with a variety of…
There are 2 functions that are really useful for WordPress developers to know when working with Gutenberg block content at a code level. The first is parse_blocks(). This enables you to parse the blocks out of any content, for example if you take any post that has been Gutenberg edited, you could use parse_blocks( $post->post_content…
Today we’re going to talk about CTA’s (Calls to Action). The right call to action on a webpage can make all the difference between driving sales versus falling short in the results department. After all we put a lot of hard work into design, into development, but what about conversion? This is the all important…
When ClickUp burst onto the scene I was one of the first users to adopt it. I fell in love immediately. Never before have I see a piece of software so versatile, customizable and user-friendly. It strikes a nice balance between usability and depth of features. To a new user I could see the UX…
Both Updraft and WP DB Migrate are potentially good choices for solving the problem of how to move WordPress sites from one server to another, create testing and staging sites and keep them in sync. Which one works best? In our experience Updraft is a better fit. Also with Updraft we don’t see any need…
