Last week, Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress was breaking up with ReactJS due to Facebook’s patent clause, which means that the upcoming Gutenberg editor will be completely re-written in some other language. Probably Preact or VueJS.
Automattic’s theme division, Theme Shaper, recently announced they will be turning their attention back to the popular Underscores starter theme. Notably, this shift is cited due to the possibilities the new Gutenberg editor brings to future theme development. Underscores is a starter theme (as opposed to a theme framework) designed to cut down many hours of development time when setting up a new custom theme. Before the Underscores project begins to receive drastic changes, it may be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the project in its current state. If you’re new to starter themes, doing so may help reduce the learning curve. In this article, […]
One big opportunity for using JavaScript interfaces with the WordPress REST API is improving WordPress admin and settings screens. I wrote a post for Torque recently on using the REST API and jQuery to build settings screens. It was a good introduction but normally, I would use VueJS. In the future, I’ll write more specifically about how to do that with VueJS, but I’d like to cover two important pain points I’ve dealt with getting to the point where this is my go to approach — compiling ES6 and template creation. I’m a big fan of VueJS for a lot […]
Question: Which plugin appears first in Google when you type in “WordPress SEO,” has over five million active installs, a 4.8-star rating in the WordPress directory, and is a regular on the most popular plugins list? If you just answered “Yoast SEO,” you would be correct and in this tutorial, you will learn how to use it correctly. The plugin by team Yoast is one of the best out there. It’s powerful, offers tremendous value, is meticulously updated and supported, and literally millions of people use it. That includes me. I have the plugin installed on basically all of my […]
Last week, I shared a short video review of the upcoming Gutenberg Editor. While I loved the minimal and “distraction free” format of the new editor while writing, it ended up being very distracting whenever I needed to do anything else, like add an image between two paragraphs that I’d already written, or adding a bulleted list without turning the nearby paragraphs into a list format too.
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