Category: Plugin development

  • Data loading in React based WordPress admin pages

    I saw a twitter discussion recently that got me thinking. When building plugins with custom admin pages, one of the more modern approaches is to build them in React, and re-use the Gutenberg component library for building out the UI so we get a nice native-feeling experience. I’m all for this and doing it in…

  • Creating sidebars for the post and site editors

    There are multiple articles on how to create a sidebar in the block editor but something you might not have seen is how to do that for the site editor (aka Full Site Editing, aka FSE). It’s a nearly identical setup to create a sidebar for the site editor but it is not yet documented,…