Exploring Modern
WordPress Development
Hi, I’m Brian!
I’m helping WordPress developers and agencies make the transition into the new era of the WordPress Block Editor.
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Grow Your WordPress Dev Skills
Every week I’m sharing the best links and my latest articles and videos about all things WordPress, with a big focus on mastering the block and site editor (“Gutenberg”).
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Using Block Variations with the Block Bindings API
Let’s dig into the new Block Bindings API in WordPress 6.5 – with a focus on how to offer a “no-code” experience for your users with Block Variations.
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Dev Considerations for a New FSE Project
This post outlines the main developer experience issues with block-based themes, with some thoughts around how I plan to solve them, including what tools I might need to leverage along the way.
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Should the “Page” in WordPress be the new default?
A crazy thought experiment: let’s make “page” the default post type in WordPress- and make posts (and all that come with them) opt-in.
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🔗 WP Tavern: Inside DE{CODE} 2024, WP Engine’s Upcoming Developer Conference
WP Engine’s team opens up about their annual developer conference focusing on WordPress, AI, and of course, Advanced Custom Fields.
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Rebuilding my website with Ollie – LIVE
A one hour livestream as I work through building my own personal blog (this very website) using the Ollie block theme.
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🔗 WP Tavern: The WordPress Training Team’s Big Changes: Learning Pathways and Website Redesign
The WordPress Training team is rethinking- and redesigning- how Users, Designers, and Developers can Learn WordPress.
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🔗 WP Tavern: Automattic Doubles Down on the Developer Community
As the WordPress ecosystem evolves, Automattic is changing its relationship with the developer community.
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🔗 WP Tavern: Synced Pattern Overrides punted, Font Library approved, as WordPress 6.5 nears release
The Executive Director of WordPress gives the final verdict on two 6.5 features with uncertain futures.
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🔗 WP Tavern: WordPress Developer Docs Shows Off a New Block-Based Redesign
WordPress.org relaunched its Developer Documentation with a much more intuitive homepage, cohesive navigation, and a modern design.
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🔗 WP Tavern: Gutenberg’s Project Leadership Sits Down with New Outreach Team to Discuss Problems with the Site Editor
What do you get when you put a handful of outspoken WordPress developers, agencies, product owners, and community advocates on a video call with both the Lead Architect and the Product Owner of the entire Gutenberg project? Hopefully progress.