WordPress Development

As I build WordPress websites for my clients, I share what I learn here as tutorials.

February 28, 2019

Dynamic Dropdown Fields in ACF

Advanced Custom Fields is a powerful tool for building metaboxes, theme settings, custom blocks, and more. The acf/load_field filter lets you customize a field before it loads. I often use…

February 26, 2019

Gutenberg Starter Themes

I share my Genesis starter theme, and a non-Genesis starter theme.

February 21, 2019

Shortcode Finder

I’m cleaning up a website with a lot of old shortcodes. Before removing a shortcode, we wanted to be sure all pages that used it were updated. So I wrote a shortcode to help 🙂…

February 19, 2019

Block Styles in Gutenberg

Every block type in the WordPress editor can have multiple style options. I’ll show you how to add and remove style options from blocks.

February 5, 2019

Gutenberg Color Palette and Button Styling

A developer’s guide to creating a WordPress color palette and applying the styles to Gutenberg blocks.

January 8, 2019

Full and wide alignment in Gutenberg

The new WordPress block editor includes two new alignment options. To take advantage of the new alignment options, your theme must first support them. Include add_theme_support( ‘align-wide’ ) in your…

January 2, 2019

Recommended Plugins with Gutenberg Blocks

The new block editor in WordPress includes many core blocks, and you can add additional blocks through plugins. These are the tools I recommend using.

December 27, 2018

Using Advanced Custom Fields with version control

ACF lets you build metaboxes, Gutenberg blocks, and more with their easy-to-use interface. These custom fields are stored in the database and then rendered in the WordPress backend for you…

December 20, 2018

Change width of post title in Gutenberg

I’ll walk you through building a metabox for tweaking the width of post titles, along with live-updating in Gutenberg.

December 18, 2018

Genesis Archive Settings for Custom Post Types

Genesis provides archive settings for adding a title and intro text to archive pages. I’ll show you how to enable this for CPT archives.

December 14, 2018

Using Block Templates with Gutenberg

Block templates are one of my favorite new features in Gutenberg. You can specify a list of blocks that automatically appear in the content editor, customize their attributes, and lock the template.

November 19, 2018

Building a block with Advanced Custom Fields

Custom blocks make the new WordPress block editor even more powerful. ACF lets you build Gutenberg blocks fast, efficiently, and with PHP.

November 8, 2018

Gutenberg Theme Development

Start here if you’re interested in creating or customizing a block-based WordPress theme. This guide provides an overview of every feature you should consider, and links to feature-specific tutorials for more information.

November 1, 2018

Using Template Parts with Genesis

Template partials are small files that hold reusable sections of code in a theme. You can build one “post summary” partial and use it everywhere – archive pages, related posts, and landing page templates.

October 25, 2018