Articles Tagged wordpress plugins

WordPress released their anticipated over to the post editor, nicknamed Gutenberg, which is also referred to as the block editor. It transforms a WordPress post into a collection of blocks that you can add, edit, remove and re-order in the layout. Before the official release, Gutenberg was available as a plugin and, during that time, I was interested in learning how to create custom blocks for the editor. I was able to learn a lot about Gutenberg that I … Read article

A huge high-five to John James Jacoby for his help here on CSS-Tricks fixing up our Markdown + bbPress integration. John runs Plugins Loaded, a source of high-quality WordPress plugins that you can use for free, or choose to pay to support.

Let's say you manage a WordPress site. You chose, purchase, and install a pre-made theme. Say you added a few items you came across in the WordPress plugin directory to add some advanced features to the site. This is the awesomeness that is the WordPress ecosystem. It's relatively easy for anyone with light technical chops to get a website off the ground and wrangle together something powerful without having to build everything from scratch. It just works great and your … Read article