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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…
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Building a Random “Post of the Day” Block for Gutenberg from Scratch
In this tutorial we’ll build a custom block for Gutenberg that will display a “post of the day” that gets randomly generated every 24 hours. It will be…
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Add Custom Metadata to Taxonomy Terms in WordPress Without Plugins
In this quick walkthrough I want to go through a simple setup for creating a custom taxonomy and adding our own metadata field. This is a common task…
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Introducing Fullerton – Free Full Site Editing Enabled Block Theme for WordPress
For most agency / freelance development projects, I use a hybrid theme approach with a Theme.json file and custom blocks, but still use PHP for the core templates…
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How to Split Theme.json into Multiple Files with WordPress
With each release, WordPress is giving more and more power to the theme.json file. The future of WordPress theme development may largely skip CSS with most developer styling…
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The Best New Features of WordPress 6.1 for Agencies and Freelancers
WordPress 6.1 was released earlier this week and it features some much needed updates to Gutenberg and block themes that make them much friendlier to agency teams. Client…
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Building React Powered Plugins with the WordPress Data Layer
I’m super excited for this one! In this write up we’ll take a look at creating a React powered plugin for WordPress and interact with the data layer…
