WordPress from Scratch - 6: Settings Overview

In this guide, I’m going to be covering the various general settings you can change for your WordPress website. Settings Here are the general settings in WordPress and a brief description of what they do. Site Title This is the title of your website, shown to search engines and shown in tab titles. Tagline This is the tagline of your website, shown to search engines and shown in tab titles....

January 8, 2022 · 2 min · Jared York

WordPress from Scratch - 7: Editor Overview

In this part of my WordPress from Scratch series, I will be going over how to use the WordPress editor. First, make sure you’re logged in and you’re on the Pages page. For this guide, we will be creating a page to practice with the editor. To create a new page, click the Add New button next to the Pages title. The first thing we will do is give the page a title....

January 8, 2022 · 6 min · Jared York

WordPress from Scratch - 8: Blocks

What Is a Block? You’ve heard me talk about blocks. Now it’s time to dig into them. Blocks are the bread and butter of the WordPress editing experience. But what is a block? A block is simply an element that can be added to a page or post. Text, images, columns, you name it, are all blocks. Block Themes Blocks make up everything on a WordPress website that uses a block theme....

January 8, 2022 · 9 min · Jared York

WordPress from Scratch - 9: Site Editor Overview

The WordPress Site Editor The WordPress site editor is quite similar, but also somewhat different than the editing experience for posts and pages. While the editing experience works the same — both use blocks — the site editor is for editing templates. I will cover templates in detail below. How to Start Editing Like many things you can do with WordPress, there are multiple ways to perform a task. There are a couple ways to open the site editor....

January 8, 2022 · 5 min · Jared York

Build a Basic WordPress Plugin

There may be many times when designing a website where the client wants some custom functionality. How do you approach this with WordPress? Plugins. Plugins allow you to extend WordPress beyond the core software. The heavy customization that WordPress allows is one of the reasons why WordPress is so popular. In this guide, I will walk you through how to build a very simple plugin. Setting Up Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL We’re going to assume that you have a WordPress environment setup for development....

September 14, 2019 · 3 min · Jared

Gutenberg: A Visual Guide

The rise of the Gutenberg editor is in full swing, for better or worse. Gutenberg was introduced by Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Europe in 2017. The editor was created to simplify website layouts, while attempting to make the task more user-friendly. While Gutenberg was originally a plugin, in December 2018, the editor was merged into WordPress Core with version 5.0. There is no doubt that Gutenberg is most likely being pushed to compete with page builder services such as Wix and Squarespace....

September 3, 2019 · 7 min · Jared