What’s new for developers in WooCommerce 10.3
A developer’s rundown of WooCommerce 10.3: COGS in core, address autocomplete at checkout, the PayPal Orders v2 upgrade, and the wc_format_decimal change plugin authors need to handle.
Tag: Block Styles
Optimizing WordPress for food blogs without the plugin pileup
A client’s food blog kept crawling despite great recipes. The fix wasn’t another plugin, it was rebuilding on custom post types and a cleaner WordPress setup.
Namespaces and coding standards for WordPress plugins
A client’s flagship plugin had outgrown its loose structure. PHP namespaces, Composer autoloading, and enforced coding standards are what pulled it back into shape.
WordPress block development after September’s core updates
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.
WordPress October updates that stop editors breaking layouts
A client’s editors kept breaking custom page layouts. October’s Gutenberg releases fix that with content-only editing for patterns, plus the Terms Query block and Block Bindings improvements.
Adding custom blocks to the WordPress Navigation block
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.
Styling the WordPress 6.9 Accordion block properly
The new Accordion block in WordPress 6.9 works but ships unstyled. Here is how to style it properly: set base styles in theme.json, then add a block stylesheet with wp_enqueue_block_style() for hover and open states instead of piling on custom CSS.