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How to Pass Data Between Custom Blocks with Block Context | Block Creator 08
In the past few lessons, we’ve explored how to create nested blocks. This is a super powerful design pattern. In this lesson, we’ll take this a step further…
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How to Package Multiple Custom Blocks Together and Curate the Editing Experience in WordPress | Block Creator 07
In this lesson we’ll take a short break from directly developing blocks. Instead, we’ll look at how to package our blocks together in a plugin file and customize…
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How to Create a Carousel / Slideshow Custom Block with WordPress | Block Creator 06
In this lesson we will create a Carousel / Slideshow block from scratch. We’ll actually make two blocks – one “slide” block that will hold the individual image,…
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How to use Inner Blocks to make Flexible Dynamic Blocks | Block Creator 05
In this lesson we’ll take a look at how to design more flexible custom blocks using Inner Blocks. This technique also has an added benefit of speeding up…
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Building Custom Dynamic Blocks from Scratch with WordPress | Block Creator 04
In this lesson we are pivoting away from static blocks to dynamic blocks instead. As a refresher: while static blocks store markup in the WordPress database, dynamic blocks…
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How to Manage Block Deprecations with Static WordPress Blocks | Block Creator 03
Welcome to part 03 of the Block Creator series! In this lesson we’ll explore a more complex topic of block deprecations. This is one of the more challenging…
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Adding Options to Custom Blocks with Block Supports | Block Creator 02
In this lesson, I’ll pick up where we left off with our basic static block from Lesson 01. If you haven’t completed that lesson go ahead and take…
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How to Build a Simple Static Custom Block in WordPress | Block Creator 01
Welcome to the Block Creator series! If you haven’t looked at the course introduction feel free to take a moment and check it out before jumping into this…
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WordPress Block Creator Course – Introduction and Local Development Setup
The WordPress block editor has had somewhat rocky adoption over the last several years, but once you learn to unlock the power of creating your own custom block…
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Eleventy (11ty), Vite, Tailwind, and Alpine.js – Rapid static site starter framework
Eleventy is one of my favorite web development tools to work with because it is so fast to get started with, but can handle a surprising amount of…
