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 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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WordPress Dev Monthly Digest Recap August 2019
After a pretty quiet summer, development of WordPress core seems to have picked up with three notable releases.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap July 2019
The month of Juli has been relatively calm for WordPress with no core updates. There was, however, the release of Gutenberg 6.1 with various improvements and bug fixes. In addition, the php coding standards have been updated to make use of more modern php syntax.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap June 2019
The month of June brought the WordPress 5.2.2 Maintenance Release with 13 bug fixes and some refinements to the Site Health feature. Gutenberg 5.9 introduced the useSelect and useDispatch custom React Hooks. And Gutenberg 6.0 among other features adds Snackbar notices and Pre-defined layout for the Columns block.
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