A client wanted the cycling word effect from a SaaS homepage. A custom block would have meant migrating their existing headings, so I extended the paragraph block instead using the Format API, WP_HTML_Tag_Processor and the Interactivity API.
Gutenberg 22.2 lets you define button hover and focus states in theme.json instead of a separate stylesheet, and it accepts YouTube or Vimeo embeds as Cover block backgrounds.
WordPress 6.9 finally lets you style core form elements from theme.json, treating textInput and select like buttons and headings. It doesn’t cover focus states yet, so here’s the hybrid theme.json plus CSS setup that works today.
A designer lost a gig sending a PDF and Behance links. The fix is a real WordPress portfolio site built on a custom post type, so your work stays clean, portable, and independent of the theme.
What happened when a client’s multi-block plugin got unwieldy: how we reorganized the blocks, automated registration, and split out shared assets so it kept scaling.
A client hit me up last month. They needed a slick video section on their product pages, with dynamic content and a different video for…
A client needed accordions and styled form fields without the usual custom-code mess. September’s WordPress core updates add a native Accordion block and theme.json form styling that make it far easier.
A client wanted a custom mini-cart block inside their nav menu. Here is how to extend the WordPress Navigation block the right way, using the blocks.registerBlockType filter to add your own blocks to allowedBlocks instead of fighting it with CSS.