Do you want to import an existing website into WordPress? Does that existing site provide an RSS feed? Then this is the article for you. The great news is WordPress has a default importer for RSS. Simply go to Tools…
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Converting React.createClass to React.Component
In my last article I talked about patching older versions of React to work in a modern environment. In this article I go one further and give a step by step guide to upgrading a classic React component to a…
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Broken React.createClass Component? Let’s Fix It!
If you are building WordPress Gutenberg Blocks (or even if you are not) you may be trying to get a third party React Component working in your build. But if it’s an older element, specifically one that uses the deprecated…
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Creating a Custom CMB2 Link Picker Control for WordPress
In this tutorial I will look at how you can create a custom control to extend the functionality of CMB2 (Custom Meta Boxes 2) by WebDevStudios. I develop websites (and web applications) with the WordPress CMS (Content Management System), and when a new…
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Secure Blocks for WordPress Gutenberg
Secure your content in the WordPress Gutenberg editor via login or by user role, with Secure Blocks for Gutenberg. Using Secure Blocks you can add any Gutenberg block inside a secure block, and have it render only to logged in…
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Disable the WordPress Multisite Activation Step
So, you’ve created a WordPress Multisite installation, and you come to add your users. Simple right? Wrong! Multisite introduces additional authentication steps, whereby a user needs to activate their account by clicking a link that has been sent to them….
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Add Select2 as an InspectorControl in WordPress Gutenberg
For a project I was working on I wanted to use Select2 as a Gutenberg InpectorControl to allow me apply settings to a block. This tutorial will also give you the foundation you need for getting any third party React Component…
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Custom TinyMCE Editor Formatting in WordPress
Sometimes when writing a block of text using the WordPress editor, you need it to look a certain way, we usually do this by adding styles to pieces of text, but we don’t always want our clients to have to…
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Changing your WordPress site language (locale) dynamically
There are some fantastic multilingual plugins for WordPress, however for one client project I needed something far more flexible, as this particular client needed to cater for several countries that each spoke several languages. In short the client needed to…
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Enforce Version Control in WordPress to Boost Security
If you have spent a long time working on your clients website, ensuring everything is in version control (such as git). Then you would be pretty gutted if your client edits a theme file, or adds a new plugin that lives…