Building ACF blocks with block.json - Bill Erickson
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…
Nick Diego: Exploring the Power of Block Variations – WordPress.tv
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…
Learning to Build Block Editor Blocks, Part 1 | Tom McFarlin
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.”
Customize Blocks with Unique Style Options and More Block Styles for WordPress is your ultimate design solution to easily build beautiful websites with advanced design options. Unlock the full potential of the WordPress Gutenberg editor with our Block Styles plugin. Block Styles give you fully responsive block-level design control over the blocks you are already…
Some time ago we started to work on integrating the new WordPress editor into our themes. Among other stuff, that includes styling all the blocks Gutenberg brings so far so they don’t only look neat but also nicely blend with the design of each of our themes. So I sat in front of the new editor and […]
Interested in checking out the upcoming WordPress editor, Gutenberg and want a JumpStart? Here you can find sample content of several Gutenberg blocks that you can simply paste into a test page on your site. This could be useful for example, in seeing if/to what extent your theme is Gutenberg-ready…
Hi there! One main discussion we are having in the WordPress ecosystem right now is how we approach the block structure. With the “Dynamic Blocks” appearing, we got a mixed approach of both React a…
Enable, Read, and Write Post Meta in WordPress Gutenberg
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.
How do you insert a block pattern? | Learn WordPress
Now it is your turn to use Block Patterns on your site! To gain experience and comfort using block patterns, you can practice designing a homepage for your test site. You can create a d…
To facilitate creating better patterns and templates, WordPress 5.9 comes with a new block level locking mechanism that works alongside templateLock. Instead of applying a lock to all inner blocks,…
The cost of WordPress plugins on the performance of the editor
Performance metrics Building a performant editor is a very difficult task, it requires constant attention and monitoring to some key metrics. In the context of the WordPress block editor (aka Guten…
Gutenberg Block Manager by Connekt will allow you to manage the activation status of Gutenberg blocks and remove unwanted blocks from the WordPress po …