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