October 17, 2024 — Recently, I adopted a plugin that has been closed for a security issue. At the same time, when I ran it through the Plugin Check, it reported a bunch of errors. So now I need to fix them. Join me as I dive into what it takes to get a plugin updated and ready to be resubmitted to the plugins directory.

October 11, 2024 — One of the biggest implementations of JavaScript in WordPress is the Block Editor. To develop blocks for the Block Editor, you need to have a good understanding of modern JavaScript, its syntax, and the tooling that’s developed around it.

In this lesson, you’ll discover some of these JavaScript technologies and how they are used to build blocks for the Block Editor.

October 11, 2024 — One of the benefits of working with WordPress is that there are often many ways to do the same thing.

While the block development examples you’ve seen so far use JSX for rendering and @wordpress/scripts for building, you can also develop blocks without using these technologies.

In this lesson, you will learn what a block without JSX or a build process could look like and the pros and cons of both approaches.

October 11, 2024 — One of the benefits of developing blocks is the ability to nest blocks within other blocks.

Let’s take a look at how nested blocks work, and how you can create them in your own block plugins.

October 11, 2024 — When planning to create a block, one of the things to consider is whether the block needs to be built from scratch, or could it simply be an extension of an existing block.

This lesson introduces the concept of block variations, which are a way to create different versions of an existing block.

October 11, 2024 — Hooks are one of the fundamental features of WordPress. They allow you to “hook” into the WordPress core, and execute your own code at specific points in the WordPress lifecycle.

This lesson will introduce you to some different hooks available in the Block Editor, and how to use them to extend the editor’s functionality.

October 11, 2024 — Depending on the requirements of the block you are building, you may need to fetch data from the WordPress database.

To make this possible, WordPress provides two JavaScript packages which allow you to fetch data from the WordPress REST API.

Let’s learn what these packages are, how they work, and how to use them to perform data fetching in your block.

October 11, 2024 — Not to be confused with Block Editor action and filter hooks, the Block editor also has something called the Block Hooks API

This API provides a way to automatically insert your block next to all instances of a specific block in block-based templates, template parts, and patterns of a WordPress block theme.

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the specific requirements needed in order to use the Block Hooks API, and how to use it to automatically insert a block next to all instances of the target block.

October 5, 2024 — The WordPress Playground block is a way to load an instance of WordPress Playground inside your WordPress site. It includes an interactive code editor, that currently only supports plugins. In this live stream, I wrap up the PR to add theme support and submit it for review.

September 6, 2024 — The WordPress Playground block is a way to load an instance of WordPress Playground inside your WordPress site.

It includes an interactive code editor, that currently only supports plugins.

Over the course of the next few live streams, I will be working on submitting a PR so that it can also support themes.