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 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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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap May 2019.
The month of May brought us WordPress 5.2 “Jaco” with al the new developer features listed in the previous edtition of this article , and the WordPress 5.2.1 Maintenance Release with improved security to the automatic update system.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap April 2019
All of April has been a approach to the WordPress 5.2 release with a Beta 2, Beta 3 and a 5.2 Release Candidate. Version 5.2 was schedueld for release on April 30th but has been bumped to Tuesday May 7th.
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WordPress: Adding widget areas to your theme’s footer.
In this article I will show you how you can use widgets to manage your WordPress theme’s footer area’s from within the WordPress admin. However the techniques I will show you are not limited to your footer area’s and can be applied to many different sections of your theme.
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