Notes On Building A WordPress Plugin
Anyone can build a plugin but it takes a lot of work to get the plugin done right and ready for sharing or WordPress review and approval. I realized the extra work involved when I was looking at the...
Add inline scripts in WordPress
When working with WordPress, you may need to insert an inline script into a page or a template. This post will discuss two ways to do it Method 1: wp_add_inline_script() # The first method,...
Live Core Web Vitals Measurements In WordPress
Building the Core Web Vitals measurement into WordPress is a bit more involved as it depends on whether you've analytics into your site and how you've done it. This function depends on Google's...
Live Core Web Vitals Measurements
Core Web Vitals give developers and performance specialists insights into different facets of user experience. These core web vitals metrics can be measured in the wild and reflect real-world users'...
Custom Counter styles
Ready-made Counter Styles provides a collection of predefined counter styles you can just drop into a stylesheet. These pre-defined custom counters are great to work in international documents since...
Customizing Gutenberg Features from functions.php
Rather than defining settings in each individual component, you can define what core features the theme supports in the theme's functions.php, using add_theme_support. add_theme_support takes one or...
Web Share APIs
Sharing content from your web application takes two different APIs: Web Share makes the content shareable and the Web Share Target API makes your app eligible to receive shared data. Getting Started...
Removing specificity from a CSS rule with :where
One of the benefits of the :where pseudo selector is that it removes the specificity of the selector inside it. This becomes a powerful solution when we want to create base styles that we can override...
WordPress Widget Blocks
If you use WordPress as your CMS and choose to keep the existing theme structure, then the news is relevant to you. Otherwise, you can skip this post. Among other new, WordPress 5.8 introduces a...
Third Party search engines in self-hosted WordPress
WordPress doesn't really have a search engine built into the CMS. This may cause unexpected results and it may skew a user's search results. The first thing to look at is replacing WordPress's...