Custom styling settings for custom elements could be so easy: use the block selector API to define the selector where the styles should apply and enable the applicable styles in the block.json. But unfortunately, it doesn’t work this way. If you need to apply styling to a custom element inside your block and not the surrounding element, you need to implement it manually. Luckily, Aki Hamano shared a how-to on GitHub.
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Fresh out of the oven and still piping hot, I have just released version 1.12.0 of Embed Privacy with several improvements. Find out more in the post.
Continue reading Embed Privacy 1.12.0 releasedWorking with multilingual content can be demanding, especially when using different domains for the languages, since it may require you to be logged in for every domain.
Continue reading Polylang: Accessing languages via URL parameterThis weekend, I released Form Block 1.7.0 and made sure that all other plugins correctly state their support for WordPress 6.9. There are some cool new features I would like to talk about.
Continue reading Form Block 1.7.0 released, and moreBy default, the WordPress importer detects existing data and doesn’t allow updating them. But what if you explicitly want to update existing data – especially metadata?
Continue reading WordPress Importer: allow updating metadataIf you’re using links with anchors in your menus, you may notice that they sometimes automatically get the class current-menu-item, which may not what you want to. This is especially true if you have a sub-menu with anchors pointing to an ID on a sub page. This would result in all the anchor links being highlighted as active with the current-menu-item class when the sub page is accessed.
Classic widget menus have a builtin aria-label, which either uses the widget’s title or a generic “Menu”. This can be improved.
switch statements are usually underrepresented, at least in PHP code. But they don’t have to be and have some nifty features, which makes life easier.
The new versions for Impressum Plus and Impressum focus on enhancing existing functionality as well as bug fixes. They thus refine the overall experience of those plugins.
Continue reading Impressum Plus 2.14.0 and Impressum 2.2.0 releasedI’m happy to be able to announce the availability of Form Block 1.6.0 and Form Block Pro 1.4.0 with months in the making and some really cool new features. And it’s just the base for many more possibilities in the future.
Continue reading Manage form submissions with Form Block (Pro)