Changing the Gutenberg color palette
How to set custom colors on the WordPress Gutenberg color palette and remove the option to select custom colors through the color picker.
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Adding custom image sizes to you WordPress theme.
How to add custom images sizes to your WordPress theme and show the new sizes in the size selector in the editor and media dialog.
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WordPress Dev Digest December 2019
In the final month of 2019 there two minor WordPress releases. Version 5.3.1 was a short-cycle maintenance release that included mostly security and bug fixes. Version 5.3.2 quickly followed to tackle some high severity issues reported after the previous release.
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WordPress: remove the type attribute from link and script tags
If you ever tried to test your WordPress website with The W3C Markup Validation Service you probably got this warning “The type attribute is unnecessary for JavaScript/style resources”. Let me show you how to fix this.
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WordPress Dev Digest November 2019
In November we saw the release of WordPress 5.3 Kirk. I listed the most important changes for developers in a previous edition.
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WordPress: Server-side block styles
Up until the WordPress 5.3 release you could only register custom block styles by creating a Javascript file with a call to registerBlockStyle. As of WordPress 5.3 we can achieve the same thing with a simple Php function call.
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WordPress Dev Digest October 2019
October has still been all about the upcoming WordPress 5.3 release which is now scheduled for November 12th. You can check out the latest version WordPress 5.3 RC3 here.
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WordPress: Add custom logo support to your theme.
Now I don’t want to start of negative so even though I’m not the biggest fan of the WordPress customizer and it will probably be replaced with some kind of Gutenberg implementation in the future. I’m also not a fan of changing client logo’s every time they or a designer decides it needs a update. So we’d better implement this option into the the WordPress admin and be done with it! 🙂
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Using Laravel d() and dd() helpers in WordPress
Besides being a “WordPress enthusiast” I’m also a fan of the Laravel framework. And sometimes Laravel has some nice features that can be transported to WordPress. I already wrote an article about using Laravel-Mix with WordPress, and in this article i want to talk about the d() and dd() debugging functions.
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WordPress: Access post meta fields through WP_Post.
In this article i want to show you a alternative, lesser known, way to access post meta values other than using the get_post_meta() function.
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