Tag: Theme Development

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 →

How to Add a Custom “Color Palette” to Your WordPress Theme

How to set a custom block color scheme in your theme for Gutenberg

One of the cool things I picked up while working on my Gutenberg Development Course was how to set a default color palette for all blocks inside your theme. Interestingly, as far as I can tell, defining custom color schemes is something only a theme should do and this cannot be set from within a custom block. Block Color … Continue reading How to Add a Custom “Color Palette” to Your WordPress Theme →

Update WooCommerce Order Address Dynamically When Customer Updates Their Address

The Problem While working on my JavaScript for WordPress redesign I came across a problem that ultimately had a simple solution, but it took me a while to figure out how to implement it. During the checkout process in WooCommerce I have removed many of the default fields to make sign up faster.  Since my course is digital I … Continue reading Update WooCommerce Order Address Dynamically When Customer Updates Their Address →

How to Redirect to Custom Page After Completing a LearnDash Course

One of the features I recently finished for the my redesign of my JavaScript for WordPress site was to have users taken to a special page once they complete a course. You can do this a number of ways, but here is how I did it:   1. Setup Congratulations Pages for Each Course The first thing I did was … Continue reading How to Redirect to Custom Page After Completing a LearnDash Course →

How to Add Meta Descriptions to WordPress Themes Using functions.php

While working on an SEO for WordPress course recently, I was looking for a way to manually add meta descriptions to a theme from the functions.php file. After playing around a bit, I came up with this solution: https://gist.github.com/zgordon/950159056d2ad299b0ee This of course raises the bigger question of why would you want to do this instead of … Continue reading How to Add Meta Descriptions to WordPress Themes Using functions.php →

Hardcode a Ninja Form in Your WordPress Theme

  I have been a big Gravity Forms supporter for a long time, however, I'm beginning to get more interested in Ninja Forms, which is a free WordPress form builder and also quite powerful. If you decide to build your WP forms with Ninja Forms, you may find the ninja_forms_display_form() function helpful since it let's … Continue reading Hardcode a Ninja Form in Your WordPress Theme →