Styling Gutenberg blocks
Block Styles allow alternative styles to be applied to existing blocks whether they are defined in core or via third-party plugins. They add a className attribute matching the style name to the...
Creating Gutenberg parts and templates manually
When working with Gutenberg template parts and templates we have two options: Create them in the full site editor Create them manually using the appropriate markup This post will cover the latter...
New Gutenberg Features: block and global configuration
Gutenberg provides additional ways to configure blocks and themes using JSON files one for block levels and one for global theme settings. We'll look at each of these in more detail block.json as a...
New Gutenberg Features: Conditionally loading block assets
One issue that I always found problematic with Gutenberg blocks is that it loads all assets all the time regardless of whether we use them in our projects or not. As of WordPress 5.8, we can work...
New Gutenberg Features: Creating block and page templates
As part of the Full Site Editing (FSE) experience, templates and page templates give you a way to prepackage blocks (similar to what variations do) and full-page templates for the theme. Templates and...
Revisiting Gutenberg full site editing
Now that WordPress 5.9 is close to release, we can revisit the Gutenberg full site editing experience since more of it will be baked into core rather than the Gutenberg plugin. I'm not a fan of full...
The web as craft or assembly line (part 2): The soul of the web
The other side of the argument is that we've let the web become boring. We've lost the whimsical designs from the early days. Examples like the Space Jam website, from 1996, show what earlier websites...
The web as craft or assembly line (part 1): Everything easy is hard again
Doing web development used to be simple. All we needed was a text editor and either good knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript or bookmarks on your browser pointing to Eric Meyer’s CSS resources on...
Testing front end with Mocha and Playwright (2022)
I've told myself for a while that I would learn how to write and use tests for front-end code. Most of the code and tutorials I've seen are written for backend code. But using tools like Playwright...
Dealing with third-party libraries
In Do you know where your third parties are going? we discussed part of the problem: How to measure the additional impact these scripts have on our site's performance when they add more scripts that...