Every person has their favorite set of tools. When we are not able to use those tools to complete a task, the feeling can be overwhelming. What do I do now? How will I accomplish what I need to do? I felt some of these feelings when I heard about Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor. If Gutenberg was block-based, what would happen to my custom page builder I created using Advanced Custom Fields?

Curious about the Gutenberg powered slides used during State of the Word? This post uncovers some technical and design aspects of the project!

It has now been a year since WordPress released its new Gutenberg Editor and it has now matured enough to become a very handy way to design and build your websites. Gutenberg has now overcome its teething issues and is a great way for both developers and noncoders to build and design the exact website they want. In this WordPress Gutenberg tutorial, we will show you both the basics of Gutenberg and also some of the more advanced types of content you can create such as custom lists, a search, and templates. First, let’s look at exactly why Gutenberg has …

I specialize in WordPress development with a focus on using the Genesis Framework to build sites are are simple to manage for clients.

Create a presentation slide deck using Gutenberg and WordPress using the Slides & Presentations Plugin from WordPress.org.

Access all of your reusable blocks in the WordPress backend. You can edit your reusable blocks here and they'll update site-wide.

We are announcing that wd_s is a Gutenberg-first theme! Read this article to learn how we integrated Advanced Custom Fields plus Gutenberg into wd_s.

Harness the power of custom colors in the WordPress block editor by defining a custom editor-color-palette for your site.

A detailed walkthrough of how I develop custom WordPress themes, including custom blocks, archive pages, and modular templates.

Learn how to use (a few of) your fields in Advanced Custom Fields inside your blocks. Advanced Custom Fields has been an essential tool for many site creators for taming WordPress custom fields. Among its many uses, ACF allows people to create tailored user interfaces for adding in custom field data. This allows posts and … Continue reading How to Use ACF Fields in Your Blocks

Using Advanced Custom Fields to create custom blocks has become part of my day-to-day workflow. It is an invaluable tool […]

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add custom Gutenberg block styles with the Gutenberg block editor. I’ve included two ways — both ES6 and ES5 Javascript.

With a header block, you can customize your page header directly in the Gutenberg block editor.

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Documents WordPress Classic Editor integration points and their Gutenberg equivalents - danielbachhuber/gutenberg-migration-guide

WordPress single posts come with featured images. Suppose you don’t want to show a featured image on every blog post but you still want a featured image showing in the archive or a front page. Lets add a checkbox to control this behaviour. If the box is checked, the featured image will be disabled and […]

WordPress’ block editor comes with the feature of block templates. This allows us to defined a set of blocks that will be present in the content of new pages...

Sometimes it could be useful to display parts of a post or page on another place on the site. For example, a slider above the title of the post/page.

The WordPress Gutenberg editor is here to stay. Embrace the future and learn how to create a Gutenberg block in this beignner tutorial.

This tutorial shows you how to change the Gutenberg block editor width based on a page template or layout defined in post-meta.

Here's a simple solution for using the block editor outside of the main content area, as a replacement for widget areas.

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Playing with Gutenberg can be fun. But creating blocks in JavaScript can be tough. But ACF will be giving developers help in the future.

Every block type in the WordPress editor can have multiple style options. I'll show you how to add and remove style options from blocks.

When building themes with custom styles for Gutenberg blocks you need to make sure those styles match in the editor as well.

A developer's guide to creating a WordPress color palette and applying the styles to Gutenberg blocks.

Create a custom Gutenberg hero block with me the easy way with ACF and the new acf_register_block() function.

Learn how to easily create a configurable testimonials block in Wordpress with Gutenberg and Advanced Custom Fields.

We answered the frequently-asked question about Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0, "What about my shortcodes?". Learn how to convert your shortcode into a block in this step-by-step guide. Plus free examples!

Our friend Josh Pollock recently published a guide which I wish I’d written (and which I may yet, because it’s a good idea, and I’m sure going to be growingly-common question). It’s about how to go from a shortcode, which is that [square-bracketed] things of the past, to the Gutenberg-y thing of the future: blocks!