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Build Custom Post Types with Structured Meta Fields in WordPress – Without 3rd Party Plugins like ACF
A common pattern in WordPress development, especially in agency settings, is creating a custom post type that is almost entirely structured meta fields, rather than long-form editor content….
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Headless WordPress with Astro Part 2: Pagination and Tags Support
Welcome to part 2 of this series of building a headless site with WordPress and Astro. In this section, we’ll add pagination to our blog’s index page, create…
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Headless WordPress with Astro – Build a Simple Blog from Scratch with Tailwind CSS
Astro has been the hottest new framework on the block for a little while now, in this post we’ll explore how to hook it up with WordPress to…
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How to Build Responsive Designs in the WordPress Editor by Extending the Core Columns Block
One of the most frequently cited limitations of the WordPress block editor is the lack of true responsive design options that are found in full fledged site builders…
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How To Create WordPress Patterns Easily with Pattern Manager from WP Engine
WordPress patterns are an amazing tool to provide clients with a simple yet powerful site building interface out of the box. Until pretty recently though, they have been…
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Create a Block Theme for WordPress Quickly with the Terre Framework
I’ve been experimenting the past couple months with a variety of strategies of how to create a block themes for WordPress. Terre is a free base theme that…
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How to safely store API keys and access protected external APIs in WordPress
I recently built a custom block on WordPress that allowed the content editor to fetch data from the google API to populate some attributes automatically. Doing this required…
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Custom Sidebars and Post Meta in Gutenberg – Build a Location Map Plugin
One of the areas where the WordPress Gutenberg editor gets a lot of complaints is that it doesn’t really handle structured data. A great example is a restaurant…
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Build a Custom Settings Page within WordPress – Announcement Banner Plugin
In this tutorial we’ll walk through creating a custom plugin with an admin settings page and cover the WordPress Options API. We’ll be building an announcement banner plugin…
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Building a Random “Post of the Day” Block for Gutenberg from Scratch – Part 2
Last week I published a tutorial on building a “post of the day” block that will randomly pick a post to display and automatically switch it up every…
