Matt Watson, Author at Wholesome Code

Install WordPress Plugins and Themes from GitHub with Composer

February 18, 2021 10:46 pmMarch 18, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Guides, WordPress0 Comments1,059 Views

In your client projects, do you keep installing the same theme or plugin that you have developed? Do you make a fix in one project that you really wish you could easily roll out to all the other projects? If…

update_post_meta WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) Equivalent is editPost

February 10, 2021 8:54 pmMarch 18, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments670 Views

wp.data.dispatch( 'core/editor' ).editPost( { meta: { wholesomecode_meta_key_example: 'Example', }, } );

If you are wondering how to update_post_meta on the current post with Gutenberg, this is the article for you. You can just use editPost like so: The code above will update the post meta wholesomecode_meta_key_example with the value ‘Example’. Remember…

wp_get_attachment_image WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) Equivalent is getMeta

February 9, 2021 9:56 pmMarch 18, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments661 Views

wp.data.select( 'core' ).getMedia( 42 );

Looking for how to get the post thumbnail, or an attachment URL by its Id in WordPress gutenberg? You may have a returned post object by using the WordPress Gutenberg equivalent of WP_Query (or the WordPress Gutenberg equivalent of get_post)….

get_post_meta WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) Equivalent is getEditedPostAttribute(‘meta’)

February 7, 2021 7:39 pmMarch 18, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments1,030 Views

const meta = wp.data.select('core/editor').getEditedPostAttribute('meta');

If you are new to writing plugins for the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg), you may be searching around for how to get the meta of the current post with get_post_meta. Never fear, you can still get_post_meta, just use getEditedPostAttribute(‘meta’) on…

WP_Query WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) Equivalent is getEntityRecords

February 5, 2021 11:54 pmMarch 18, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress10 Comments2,749 Views

wp.data.select( 'core' ).getEntityRecords( 'postType', 'post', { 'status': 'draft', 'per_page': 2, } );

If you are new to writing plugins for the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg), you may be a little confused how to do all the things you did regularly, like grabbing posts with WP_Query. You will be very pleased to know…

get_post WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) Equivalent is getEntityRecord

January 4, 2021 7:49 pmMarch 18, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments536 Views

const post = wp.data.select('core').getEntityRecord('postType','post', 42);

New to writing plugins for the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg)? you may be searching around for how to do a get_post to get a post by ID. You can still get a post with get_post, just use getEntityRecord and pass…

Wholesome Publishing – Comments and Draft blocks in WordPress

August 6, 2020 2:24 pmMarch 18, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Plugins, WordPress0 Comments656 Views

Looking for Google Docs style comments? Try the plugin from Multdots instead. Wholesome Publishing brings some wholesome editing features to the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg). Features include: Ability to add threaded comments to individual blocks. Ability to mark a block…