There’s a lot you can do with core WordPress blocks, but there are situations where the off-the-shelf options just don’t cut it. Maybe the design is

ACF Blocks opens the door to more creative building possibilities. One example we previously explored was using InnerBlocks and parent/child

Overview The WordPress Block Supports API offers plenty of features to extend your ACF Blocks. Additional attributes are passed to your block when you opt

Learn the differences between block styles and block variations and how to use variations in customer and core blocks.

Create an accordion block with ACF Pro integration.

Learn how to create a custom dynamic block that saves information to custom post_meta and creates a one-to-one experience in both the block editor and on the front end. You will see an example of how to to use @wordpress/create-block package to scaffold a block.

As I continue to write about learning to build block editor blocks, we’ll continue with looking at adding styles to both the backend and the frontend.

In this part of the series, we begin looking at how we can make our blocks more dynamic by adding support for editable content.

ACF 6.0 includes a major improvement to the way blocks are built. It now supports using block.json, which aligns with WordPress core’s preferred method for block registration. Why is this…

The block variation API allows you to create “variations” of existing blocks. A variation differs from the original block by a predefined set of attributes or inner blocks. When the variation block…

I’m going to go write a series of articles in which I’ll share my experience as something like “a backend engineer is learning to build Block Editor blocks.”

Have you been making the most of Gutenberg? Learn how to use block patterns to make posting faster and easier.

Your custom blocks can use the native Background Color and Text Color block features.

The WordPress block editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg) communicates with the database via the WordPress REST API. We can read and write post meta from within the Gutenberg editor after we enable the specific post meta field in the WordPress REST API.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, gradients are here to stay. Especially now, as the WordPress block editor has a default mechanism to apply gradient styles throughout the editing experience. Out of the box, I don’t find the default gradient application experience particularly meaningful, as these presets are an assortment of trendy gradient styles presets. But …

We start off by finding out which block styles exists via .getBlockTypes(). This will dump it into the console: wp.domReady(() => { // find blocks styles wp.blo

What makes a Gutenberg single block plugin different, and how they will change the landscape of WordPress as we know it with the WordPress Block Directory.

Over the years, I’ve had a range of pages that have contained my content from across several sites. It’s now even easier to create a page using the RSS block, and today I’m going …

Part 1 - Programmatically registering and configuring your Genesis custom blocks In the last 3 months I've given upwards of a dozen presentations on building custom blocks with Genesis. Some of

Blocks in WordPress are great. Drop some into the page, arrange them how you like, and you’ve got a pretty sweet landing page with little effort. But what

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create custom color palettes for WordPress Gutenberg, making your theme even more flexible.

Use ACF Blocks and Gutenberg to create an entirely custom landing page library. With ACF Pro and the new Block Editor, your content can take center stage.

Process and code for integrating my Revision Notes plugin with the WordPress block editor.

Learn how to make block patterns!

Note: The link to the full example is here. It’s a small plugin so feel free to download it, install it, and use it as you follow along with this guide. Why is this necessary? The Gutenberg editor in WordPress allows infinite possibilities for developers to provide custom block solutions for content editors. At some point…

We introduce you to the concept of Gutenberg block patterns and demonstrate how to create one of your own in WordPress.

Use InnerBlocks to insert any block (core or custom) inside your custom ACF block. Set the default content, limit which blocks can be used, and more.