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There has been significant upheaval in the WordPress community over the past few weeks due to the ban of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) from WordPress.org and the actions taken by Automattic. This situation has polarized opinions and left hundreds of thousands of users concerned about the future of one of the most essential plugins for […]
Since its initial launch, the Gutenberg block editor in WordPress has seen significant improvements and updates, enhancing both functionality and user experience. Introduced in WordPress version 5.0, Gutenberg marked a substantial departure from traditional editing structures by introducing the concept of reusable blocks, which can be saved and reused across different pages, along with a […]
Discover Our Favorite WordPress Themes and Uncover the Uncomfortable Truth: You Might Just Need a Custom One When searching for the perfect WordPress theme, your project’s requirements, site dimensions, and desired flexibility should be your initial considerations. Selecting the right theme is crucial as it defines your site’s aesthetics and functionality. Choosing the right one […]
Writing unit tests is really not as difficult as it seems. Let’s see how to do it in JavaScript using Jest. Set up Before we begin, let’s prepare everything we need. Inside a new folder, we’ll initialize npm. In this case, I’m passing the -y flag so it doesn’t ask questions and assigns all default […]
Creating Post Types in WordPress is often a tedious process. On top of that, many times we have to rely on plugins or additional features within the admin panel to gain control over the columns or the way these post types are displayed. Extended Custom Post Types is a very popular package on GitHub that, […]
Note. This post draws heavily from this excellent article and combines those concepts with other experiences we’ve had using Composer. What is Composer Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. In the same way that npm exists for JavaScript, RubyGems for Ruby, or pip for Python, these dependency managers are responsible for handling all the […]
When we are starting our careers, we believe we are going to spend all our time writing code. And while that is not false, it is also not 100% true. The reality is that in addition to writing, we are going to read. We are going to read a lot. We might even read more […]
