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Category: Development

  • Has the ClassicPress fork of WordPress taken a wrong turn?

    Has the ClassicPress fork of WordPress taken a wrong turn?

    ClassicPress has recently been making headlines within the WordPress community – it’s a fork of WordPress which doesn’t include Gutenberg. Personally, I didn’t get it – you can just as easily install the standard WordPress Core and use the Classic Editor plugin to turn Gutenberg off.

    But I have nothing against forks, per se, as Gary Pendergast (Pento) recently wrote, they are a much needed thing within the open source community. However, Pento put it succinctly when he said…

    ClassicPress has styled itself as a protest against Gutenberg

    However, recent proposals for ClassicPress now make me wonder what their aim really was and whether they’ve made a turn for the worst.

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  • Can we talk about Gutenberg and some of the toxic elements of the community?

    Can we talk about Gutenberg and some of the toxic elements of the community?

    Unlike so many of the articles on the subject of Gutenberg, I’m not going to review it. I’ve run it on my site for some time and think it’s great. As a non-JS (okay, I know a little) developer, it’s going to be a steep hill to convert my plugins but as a user, I think it’s an amazing improvement.

    No, I want to talk about some of the toxicity in the community and discuss some of the conspiracy theories that accompanies this.

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  • Why you should move your personal site configuration to a plugin

    Why you should move your personal site configuration to a plugin

    Most people add useful code snippets to their WordPress site using their theme’s functions.php file – simply add the code to the end and all is good. But there are a number of downsides to this solution which can be simply cured by converting them to a plugin. Let me explain why and how you can do this.

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  • Detecting per-post use of Gutenberg

    Detecting per-post use of Gutenberg

    There may be times when you need to detect use of Gutenberg on a per-post level – for example, a plugin that adds specific Gutenberg functionality, or maybe to display specific content on Gutenberg pages.

    With plugins such as Gutenberg Ramp available, making it easy to specify specific groups of posts that should use Gutenberg, plus the fact that only posts you edit/add after installing Gutenberg will make use of its new functionality, it’s easy to see that most sites will end up with a mixed estate.

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  • Adding a link to your draft posts in the WordPress admin

    Adding a link to your draft posts in the WordPress admin

    When you’re working in a publishing environment, the most used part of WordPress will be viewing your draft posts. After all, this is your current, active work. Once done, it’s over to an editor to publish. Yet, draft posts are a few too many clicks than they really need to be.

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