It is October 2021 and I am testing the WordPress full site editing capabilities with Gutenberg. As of this writing, this is only available via the Gutenberg plugin until WordPress 5.9 is released in a few months. I had cloned the Theme Experiments repo directly in my test site’s theme folder. The cool thing is
Website security is very important these days. Word of advice, don’t take security into your own hands, let professionals help you out. There are many solutions available to you out there, but lately WordFence has been my favorite (plus, I just like to read their blogs and watch their YouTube channel) Out of the box,
I enjoy building websites with WordPress as it is very quick and easy to install and modify. In order to make my development work easier, I prefer to utilize Docker containers as an even quicker and easier way to spool up a WordPress site locally and then deploy to an external hosting service when completed.
I cannot believe how long it has been since I took a look at this article. I originally posted this very simple procedure to combine Bootstrap with Underscores.me to create a very plain and simple WordPress theme on September 5th, 2016. We are now almost three years later and the process is very much the
Google is paying attention to whether you have an SSL certificate to your site. It is my understanding that Google will rank sites higher that now can be reached via HTTPS:// rather than only HTTP:// (note that the ‘S’ is missing – for ‘Secure’). I found it rather easy to setup a free SSL certificate
I was having an issue trying to get a very simple Hello World React App to load in a WordPress page. The console error I was getting said that the element that I was trying to put the App into was not part of the DOM. When I looked through all of the DOM elements,
WordPress can be used to track information about your clients, however you must remember to keep your WordPress installation up to date and learn about current legal regulations for the security of your client information. There are many great plugins available for WordPress to help you manage your site and to help keep it secure.
NOTE: The following article is outdated. It was originally written Jan 2018 and there have been many updates to Gutenberg since. Still worth a read, just know that the code may not work as intended. No ideas as of July 2018 when I can update this code due to other large WordPress projects. I have
As of 12/27/2017, I just finally understood how to use the ESNext version of creating blocks. There was not much documentation around for someone as novice as myself. I watched many videos and practiced with React. I knew there had to be a build process, but I did not know how to set one up.
NOTE: This following was written December 2017 and many changes have been made to Gutenberg since then. Due to other large WordPress projects in my queue, I apologize that I do not have a planned update for this page at this time. This is a good read still, just know that the code below may
