Tag: webdev

This is a follow up to my first block bindings post, and Brian Coords great YouTube video. Combining custom sources for block bindings with block variations can be a simple and powerful tool. Here’s a straightforward example on how they can be beneficial together. With a block theme in the past if you wanted the…

I just needed to remove all links from all post terms blocks (for reasons). The filter render_block_{$this->name} is such a great resource for modifying core blocks and made it so simple to do. If you’re doing any kind of work with blocks in WP as a dev, it pays to have this filter always at…

Update 2024-04-02: ACF supports Block Bindings directly now with acf/field Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) doesn’t have direct support for Block Bindings yet (as of 2024-03-14), but in the meantime, this seems to work by creating a custom source for block bindings: and then reference in a template (use the code editor): Reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/03/06/introducing-block-bindings-part-2-working-with-custom-binding-sources/

With WordPress FSE, if you run into the issue of not being able to edit or insert content inside the Post Template block inside a Query Loop block. Try temporarily editing the query loop to not inherit and instead be a query that you know will show results. Then it should be editable. Make your…

The best way I’ve found to use 3rd party JavaScript in my custom blocks (for example loading AlpineJS or VueJS) is to register the script and then use viewScript to include it. Here’s an example In your custom block plugin PHP: Then in block.json Now that script will load on every page the block is…

I’ve been testing out wp-now and really liking it so far for spinning up a quick WordPress site. What I couldn’t figure out is where the sqlite file was saved when using wp-now in ‘wordpress’ mode for a real site (not just playground). I knew playground database was in ~/.wp-now/wp-content/playground/database/.ht.sqlite But finding the database for…