Category: WordPress

  • Streamlining Your Content Creation: Adding Images From Your Phone With Ease
    Streamlining Your Content Creation: Adding Images From Your Phone With Ease

    We’re excited to share a new feature in the desktop editor and Jetpack mobile app that makes it a breeze to upload media to your WordPress posts and … Streamlining Your Content Creation: Adding Images From Your Phone With Ease I’m a big fan of this improvement. I use the Jetpack app for a lot…

  • To Tag or Not to Tag: What is the Optimal Number of Tags for your WordPress Blog
    To Tag or Not to Tag: What is the Optimal Number of Tags for your WordPress Blog

    During a recent WordPress website redesign project, I was asked a very interesting question that I hadn’t given much though: What is the optimal number of tags to use on a site? Wow! I never really considered the “optimal” number of tags for a site. I would say for an individual post 5–10 would be…

  • Some changes coming soon
    Some changes coming soon

    A recent update seems to have messed with my blog card design. I just can’t get figure out why the editor view of my query loop looks perfect while the front end looks totally borked. Well, I’ll take this as an opportunity to update my theme. If you follow my blog, which I know there’s…

  • Block Visibility Plugin
    Block Visibility Plugin

    The Block Visibility plugin developed by Nick Diego for WordPress is my absolute favorite block plugin right now for WordPress. This plugin provides an extensive array of visibility controls that empowers website owners to tailor the appearance and behavior of their content in a highly flexible manner. Here are five practical applications of the visibility…

  • Mini Twenty Fourteen is Live in the Museum of Block Art
    Mini Twenty Fourteen is Live in the Museum of Block Art

    I wanted to learn more about block building in Gutenberg and tested myself with recreating a classic WordPress theme, Twenty Fourteen. I decided to submit my work to the Museum of Block Art, and it was accepted! You can check out my entry in the gallery. This was a ton of fun to do. I…

  • WP Job Manager gets a redesign
    WP Job Manager gets a redesign

    WP Job Manager has recently undergone a brand refresh and now sports a new website! Maybe you haven’t checked it out for a while, so if you are considering building a job listing website, WP Job Manager is the Plugin you shouldn’t miss. Here are 5 reasons why WP Job Manager should be your preferred…

  • Miniature Twenty Fourteen Block Art
    Miniature Twenty Fourteen Block Art

    The Museum of Block Art is a gallery of art built with the WordPress block editor, pushing the boundaries of core Gutenberg. Inspired by the call for new submissions celebrating 20 years of WordPress, I wanted to create something related to themes. The “curators are challenging artists to submit WP20 blocks inspired by the 20th anniversary…

  • WordPress Product Launches Roundup: APPExperts, WP Wallet, Block Styles, and Stock Control for WooCommerce

    Despite the flurry of April Fools day jokes circulating today, the WordPress product market has been heating up in the past couple weeks with new … WordPress Product Launches Roundup: APPExperts, WP Wallet, Block Styles, and Stock Control for WooCommerce There are quite a few plugins coming out recently to extend the core blocks. I’m…

  • How to create a fancy divider using Gutenberg and full site editing
    How to create a fancy divider using Gutenberg and full site editing

    This will be the first of what I hope will be be many short tutorials using Gutenberg and full site editing. I’ll try to keep these quick, and if I’m lucky I’ll include a short video with each tip. In this tutorial we’re going to have a little bit of fun with full site editing.…

  • Recreating the WordPress Twenty Seventeen Theme Using Full Site Editing
    Recreating the WordPress Twenty Seventeen Theme Using Full Site Editing

    I’ve been excited about full site editing (FSE) and the future of WordPress theme design for a long time. It’s a slow process, but each new Gutenberg plugin release and the forthcoming WordPress 6.0 show just how far WordPress has come along in democratizing publishing on the web. Since the early days of FSE beta,…