Tag: Gutenberg Editor

Adding Custom Notices for the Gutenberg Editor

WordPress admin notices have changed and the good old PHP-based hooks no longer work for Gutenberg. This post covers the easy way to add admin notices when a post gets added or updated.

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 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...

Creating a Global Options Component in Gutenberg

At WebDevStudios (WDS), we’ve seen many iterations of page builders and page builder-esque tools over the years. I think it’s safe to say that the experimentation began with CMB2 and led us down an exciting path that included a handful of full-fledged page...

How Existing Content Will Be Affected by Gutenberg WordPress Editor

By now, you’ve likely heard about something different coming to your WordPress website called Gutenberg—a new way in which you will edit your website using a concept of data blocks. I think it’s safe to say that the Gutenberg WordPress editor is the single...

Preparing for Gutenberg

Your WordPress editor is about to get a makeover! While the details aren’t complete yet, we know that soon, the way we edit our content in WordPress is going to change. It’s called the Gutenberg Editor, and the time has come for you...