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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WordPress Dev Monthly Digest Recap September 2019
In September WordPress 5.3 beta 1 was released. This upcoming version includes some updates to the Block editor that may require you to make some modifications to your themes Css. So be sure to check that out.
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Building a Gutenberg sidebar plugin Part 5: Outputting data.
In this final part of our little journey we are going to use this data and actually output it to the head of our webpages. To do this we are going back to our metatags class we created in the first article.
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Building a Gutenberg sidebar plugin Part 4: Adding form components.
In this article we are going to add some form field components for Browser title, Meta description and the Robots tag so we can actually edit our Seo meta data.
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Building a Gutenberg sidebar plugin Part 3: Registering with the block editor.
In the previous article we finished setting up the assets bundling with Laravel Mix. The next step is to start adding some Javascript code to actually register our plugin with the Gutenberg block editor.
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Building a Gutenberg sidebar plugin Part 2: Adding structure and asset bundling
In the previous section i showed you how to register the Metatags plugin with WordPress using Oop Php. In this article we will continue by adding a folder structure and a Webpack asset bundler using Laravel Mix to process the Css and React Javascript needed for the Gutenberg editor.
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Building a Gutenberg sidebar plugin Part 1: Registering the plugin with (oop) php
In this multi-part article, I want to show you how you can start building WordPress Gutenberg sidebar plugins by developing a simple SEO tag editor sidebar called Metatags.
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