When creating plugins or themes, you often need build assets and/or deploy it to somewhere else, e.g. to the WordPress.org plugin repository. Since the code is often hosted on GitHub, the so called GitHub Actions can be used to do this.
Continue reading GitHub Actions to create and deploy plugins/themesAuthor: Matze
Even though the development around version 1.4.0 of Form Block didn’t go as planned, I’m happy to announce its public availability. It was a little frustrating and potentially means an even longer to-do list, but one after the other …
Continue reading Form Block 1.4.0 release and opinions on date pickersDuring the last few months, I worked quite a few times with block themes for WordPress. And while I get used to it, I also experienced some flaws I want to talk about. I want to clarify that not everything is bad with block themes, but it gives you an idea of some fundamental problems with them and a potential reason why they are adapted so slowly by theme creators.
Continue reading Major flaws in block theme creationProviding custom plugins outside of WordPress.org also means to handle things like plugin information manually. That’s why I searched for a more automated solution for the changelogs. That means that I don’t have to ship it as part of the plugin itself, but to retrieve it automatically from somewhere else.
Continue reading Dynamically retrieving WordPress plugin changelogsImpressum Plus version 2.8.0 is available and comes packed with a couple of changes. Let’s take a deeper look in what’s new.
Continue reading Impressum Plus 2.8.0 releasedWith the latest feature update 1.9.0 for Embed Privacy, it received a new thumbnail generation method. And I want to talk about it. Basically, it’s part of a broader approach to enhance the extensibility of the plugin while cleanup code and keep it easily maintainable.
Continue reading Updates to Embed Privacy’s thumbnail generationCurrently, you cannot add post type archives to the navigation block. At least not in a way that it recognizes its state, e.g. whether it’s the current active menu item. This is a known issue in the Gutenberg project (see GitHub) since at least May 2021. And unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be addressed very soon.
Continue reading Add post type archives to the navigation blockIn the navigation block of the WordPress block editor, you can select whether the mobile menu button should be displayed via icon or text, but not both. To display an icon as well as text aside of it, you need to manually add this content to the button.
Continue reading Add „Menu“ and „Close“ to WordPress navigation blockYou absolutely should securing your WordPress login with a multi-factor authentication to make it harder for attackers to hijack your site. And passkeys are even more convenient.
Continue reading Using passkeys in WordPressIn my local test environment, I work with a custom setup based on Homebrew with nginx, MySQL and PHP. For creating a new WordPress website, I’ve created a script to automate it.
Continue reading Creating new WordPress sites with WP-CLI via script