Category: JavaScript for WordPress

Interview on React Explained Book, Teaching & Yoga

I want to give a huge thanks to Steve Burge and OSTraining for letting me write a React book for them. In this interview we discuss the book a little bit, but also get into some great discussions about eduction, life, yoga and more. Steve really wanted to get into some teaching stories that I … Continue reading Interview on React Explained Book, Teaching & Yoga →

WordCamp London Gutenberg Workshop

https://twitter.com/zgordon/status/985462303255490560 For years I have wanted to make it to WordCamp London.  Since doing my study abroad at Cambridge, I have felt a second home in the UK. This year I got to finally be in England for WordCamp London 2018. https://twitter.com/tomcchute/status/985119398695522304 The week before the Camp I did an informal Gutenberg workshop with the … Continue reading WordCamp London Gutenberg Workshop →

Gutenberg Jam Session with Pragmatic

This week I had the opportunity to stop by Pragmatic, a leading WordPress UK agency to do an informal chat / workshop around Gutenberg. https://twitter.com/tomcchute/status/983659963720634369 What We Talked About I didn't want to take too much time going over things that I already covered in my Gutenberg Development Course.  But there were still some folks … Continue reading Gutenberg Jam Session with Pragmatic →

WordCamp Miami Gutenberg Workshop 2018

https://twitter.com/zgordon/status/974643443300552704 This year, WordCamp Miami continued it's focus on providing resources around learning JavaScript for WordPress.  Not only did they have a dedicated JavaScript track like they have in the past, they also had a full day workshop on Gutenberg Development. https://twitter.com/bph/status/974654737776857088 Brian Richards, Grzegorz (Greg) Ziółkowski, Josh Pollock and myself each did part of the workshop that … Continue reading WordCamp Miami Gutenberg Workshop 2018 →

How to Use wp.i18n.__() to Allow for Translation of Your Gutenberg Block Text

While working on my Gutenberg Development Course I was really happy to find out that the core developers ported over much of the internationalization features we are familiar with on the PHP side into a client side library available as wp.i18n. Example of __() in Action   https://gist.github.com/zgordon/6d65957530c2598b0cc4d041e1a1dd15 Since wp.i18n is available in the global scope, you can access … Continue reading How to Use wp.i18n.__() to Allow for Translation of Your Gutenberg Block Text →

How to Add Block Templates to Your WordPress Theme or Plugin

How to Add Block Templates to Your WordPress Theme or Plugin Gutenberg

While working on my Gutenberg Development Course, one of the hardest things I found to research was how to add block templates to your WordPress theme or plugin. Block templates are a way to have certain blocks show up by default for a new post, page or custom post type.  You can also "lock" the template to … Continue reading How to Add Block Templates to Your WordPress Theme or Plugin →