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 “Managing WordPress Metadata in Gutenberg Using a Sidebar Plugin”

The MapSVG plugin for WordPress allows you to create feature-rich, interactive maps quickly and through a smart admin UI. Interactive maps are a common request for projects when you need to visualize impact over particular locations. If you are already on WordPress, this comprehensive plugin could be your solution for production-ready maps.… Read article “Creating Interactive Maps in WordPress with MapSVG”

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 “Methods for Overriding Styles in WordPress”

Let’s say you plan to get into podcasting. You have the recording equipment, an interesting topic, and a good voice that other people want to hear. You seem well on your way to filling earbuds everywhere.

Then there’s the issue of hosting your podcast. iTunes requires an RSS feed so it can distribute your episodes to subscribers when they’re available, but how do you do that? The good news is that there are plenty of ways to host a podcast. … Read article “How to Roll Your Own Simple WordPress Podcast Plugin”

I think this is a fun and useful style of post that any WordPress blogger can do. It’s always interesting to hear in what ways people are extending what WordPress can do out of the box. I’ll share the ones I’m using here on CSS-Tricks then you can share yours (either in the comments or in a post on your own WordPress site). My list is quite a bit different than the last time I did this in 2008. If … Read article “WordPress Plugins I Use”