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Matt Watson

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Crafting wonderfully wholesome things with WordPress since 2006, web developer since 1996, and remote worker since 2014, I am a developer, farther and a husband, based in Yorkshire, UK.

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The WP Owls #OwlLinkChallenge

Nov 19, 20211 min read 97 views

When WP Owls asked me to come up with a block-based tutorial for their site, I decided to give them not one, but two solutions. I recreated their link block (the owl link) using a Block Pattern, and then I created a standard REACT based block. Read ...

Filter (almost) any text string in WordPress using gettext

Nov 5, 20211 min read 208 views

I had an interesting job land on my desk today. A customer wanted to change a text string within a third party plugin, however there was no settings or filters to alter the string. The string however was translatable via WordPresses own international...

Use a Modal Popup to Add Additional Attributes with registerBlockFormat

Sep 27, 20217 min read 347 views

We have had a look at Applying Formats to your Post Content with registerFormatType. But what if we want to add additional colours to our highlighter pen? In this guide we are going to expand what we worked on previously and add a modal popup that wi...

Use a Modal Popup to Add Additional Attributes with registerBlockFormat

Format your Post Content with registerFormatType

Sep 27, 20216 min read 502 views

You can add custom buttons to the toolbar in WordPress Gutenberg quite easily, but did you know you can also add format type controls to the format menu? In this guide we are going to look at how to add a format control using registerFormatType that ...

Format your Post Content with registerFormatType

Create a Custom Sidebar with PluginSidebar

Mar 30, 20213 min read 262 views

We have taken a look at custom block sidebars, third party block sidebars via InspectorControls, and how to add controls to the post sidebar. In this guide we are going to look at putting our controls in their very own custom sidebar. Our Custom Side...

Create a Custom Sidebar with PluginSidebar

Add Controls to the Post Sidebar with PluginDocumentSettingPanel

Mar 27, 20215 min read 940 views

So far we have taken a look at the block sidebar by adding InspectorControls to our custom blocks and adding controls to core and third party block sidebar with filters and Higher Order Components. In this guide we are going to look at adding control...

Add Controls to the Post Sidebar with PluginDocumentSettingPanel