Blog posts under the blocks tag

Block Patterns Redux: Progression and Application in Modern WordPress

WordPress Blocks have become a key focus of our work, and WordPress Block Patterns, in particular, have caught my attention. While custom blocks and tools like ACF are important, the introduction of the group block and block patterns has changed how we...

Block Party: Exploring Interactive WordPress Blocks

Modern-day WordPress websites use an arrangement of blocks to organize and display content on a page. Some blocks come with the WordPress install, but others are custom-made by third parties. Some of these WordPress blocks are interactive. Interactive WordPress blocks refer to...

Quick Tip: Gutenberg Blocks as JSON

Big Ugly Blobs When WordPress saves Gutenberg blocks to the database, it smashes them together as a string of markup. When you query that via the REST-API or WPGraphQL? You get this big ugly blob of HTML: The screenshot above isn’t that...

WordPress Blocks Backwards Compatibility

When I narrowed my development career focus from the PHP world at large to WordPress land, one of the things I enjoyed was WordPress’ commitment to backwards compatibility. As my fellow Minnesota coworker and pragmatist, Richard Aber, would say, new features are...

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...