Category: WordPress

  • 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…

  • WCEU Torino – a first timers experience

    So it seems to be the thing to do a write up after a WordCamp experience. I hope I’m not adding noise to the already great articles I’ve read out there, I thought it would be a good idea to do a small write up from a first timers perspective. While I’ve been “in” the…

  • 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,…

  • Creating Cron jobs in WordPress plugins

    This topic has been covered plenty already but I always find myself googling this or looking at an old codebase when I need to create cron jobs in WordPress. So this is more of a note to self (as I imagine many future posts will be) of how to do this as a self contained…

  • How to add a Mastodon verified link without a plugin

    You can add Mastodon verified links to your WordPress site without using a plugin by adding a code snippet (below). If you’re not sure what a verified link is, they look like this, with the check: First make sure to use the core Mastodon social link block and add a link to your Mastodon profile:…