Category: WordPress

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Composer vs npm

TL;DR? NPM 🥊 Composer 👊 npm install (libraries go in node_modules, executables in node_modules/.bin) composer install (libraries go in vendor, executables in vendor/bin) npm install --production composer install --no-dev npm install --package-lock-only composer update --lock npm install <package> composer require <package> npm...

Headless WordPress: Making Your Own API Endpoints

So you want to learn how to start making your own WordPress API endpoints? Great! Today we will be taking a dive into what it takes to write our own restful API endpoints for WordPress starting from the basics and working our...

Core Web Vitals

The experiences on the web have gotten pretty bad. The latest trend of pop-up videos and ad-block interstitials (à la Admiral), banner ads that cause content and layout shifts, and sluggish interactions from heavy JavaScript execution is extremely frustrating for users! Google...

How to Enable Frontend Editing with Gutenberg Blocks (Part 2)

Welcome back! In Part 1, we covered preparing our block for frontend editing by implementing unique block identifiers, rendering the block dynamically, and establishing a frontend component. Now, we’ll dive into the WordPress REST API to set up a custom route and...

How to Enable Frontend Editing with Gutenberg Blocks (Part 1)

The WordPress Block Editor (aka Gutenberg), despite all the bumps along the way, has completely changed how we write pages and posts. Instead of a text document, we now have access to an interactive page builder of sorts while editing content, at...

Another Five for the Future in Our Forecast

Not only are rising summer temperatures in the forecast as July comes to an end, but there is another Five for the Future Friday scheduled in ours. Tomorrow, the final day of July, WebDevStudios (WDS) will devote the day to giving back...

WordPress for Online Newsrooms

Today’s current events are no further than a fingertip away at all times. We are flooded by the news all day, every day. And not just on television like in the past, but on our computers, on our phones, even on our...

Headless WordPress: Deeper Dive API Primer and How to Post to Other Platforms

Do you have content you want to write once but share everywhere? Headless WordPress (also known as WordPress API) may just be the answer for you! If you aren’t familiar with what Headless WordPress is, check out the article I wrote titled...

Contributing to the WordPress Core

There are many ways to contribute to WordPress and its community. This article is focused on helping developers set up and get started on contributing to the WordPress core. Spoiler: You can definitely do this without SVN! Before anything, I would like...