Derek Hanson

Tag: gutenberg

  • Nobody clicks your share buttons

    I don’t click share buttons. I never have. When I find something worth sharing, I tap the share icon in Chrome on my phone. That’s it. On my desktop I…

  • From product idea to Gutenberg PR in a weekend

    I built my first Gutenberg PR from a product idea I had already tested in Opa.blog. The code still has to pass review, but the bigger shift is already clear:…

  • Cover block parallax style — v1.2.0

    The first version of Cover Block Parallax Style was a pretty simple idea: add a smooth parallax scrolling effect to the native WordPress Cover block without requiring custom blocks or…

  • I shipped a WordPress theme I couldn’t build a year ago

    A grad school seminar, two books, and a gap nobody had filled My dad was big into history. Growing up, we spent a lot of time learning about historic wars…

  • Scroll to Top block by the Special Projects team

    One of my favorite parts about working for the Automattic Special Projects team is the opportunity to create cool tools for WordPress users. Whether it’s a block missing in Gutenberg,…

  • Transform WordPress Page Loads with View Transitions

    I just came across the View Transitions plugin by Felix Arntz and the WordPress Core Performance Team, an experimental tool that brings the smooth feel of native apps to traditional…

  • I’ve wondered for a long time why you can’t associate images with categories and tags in WordPress. It’s a pretty common design request to have unique archive pages, but manually…

  • Radical idea 💡. With the new pattern overrides coming in WordPress 6.6, what if you only used the Post Content block in page templates? One type of page design experience…

  • I love the sneaky addition of Background Image to your site’s global styles in WordPress and Gutenberg. I’ve played around with creating classic styled sites using the Cover block, but…

  • If you aren’t yet, you should be following Rich Tabor’s Shaping WordPress posts now. His zoomed out view of the landscape of WordPress down to the details of the Gutenberg…