It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Y'all know WooCommerce: it's a plugin for WordPress that adds robust eCommerce functionality to your site. Notably, like WordPress itself, it's open-source and free. You only pay for things if you need things like special plugins that extend functionality.
This is a huge month for WooCommerce! Two major releases:
… Read article “WooCommerce 4.0 & WooCommerce Payments Beta”
A standard e-commerce site has a few common pages. There are product pages, shop pages that list products, and let’s not forget pages for the user account, checkout flow and cart.
WooCommerce makes it a trivial task to set these up on a WordPress site because it provides templates for them and create the pages for you right out of the box. This is what makes it easy to get your store up and running in a few minutes just … Read article “How to Customize the WooCommerce Cart Page on a WordPress Site”
Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the whole v10 redesign, a friend's website, and even writing a book. Those are getting a little long in the tooth though. You might still learn from watching them if you're getting into WordPress theme development, but there will be moments that feel very aged (old UI's and old versions … Read article “Where to Learn WordPress Theme Development”
It's been over a year since the big WordPress launch of Gutenberg, the new editor. It seems to me most of the controversy around it has died down. There has been enough time that the UX and accessibility of it have improved, and people are seeing the potential a lot more clearly. There ain't no turning back.
I'm running across articles like Haris Zulfiqar saying he's betting on it and Nick Hamze saying that blocks are for the next … Read article “Gutenberging”
Just this morning, Chris shared a streamlined way to get a static site up and running with Netlify. As it happens, Sarah and I also wrote up a little something that expands that idea where a static site can pull content from WordPress using the REST API.
Using Vue, Nuxt, axios, and Netlify, it's possible to get both the performance and continuous integration benefits of Jamstack with the powerful publishing and editing features of a CMS. It's really … Read article “How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The Jamstack”
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic Model, View, Controller (MVC) structure without depending on a purpose-built templating engine.… Read article “PHP is A-OK for Templating”
Gatsby and WordPress is an interesting combo to watch. On one hand, it makes perfect sense. Gatsby can suck up data from anywhere, and with WordPress having a native REST API, it makes for a good pairing. Of course Gatsby has a first-class plugin for sourcing data from WordPress that even supports data from popular plugins like Advanced Custom Fields.
On the other hand, Gatsby is such a part of the JAMstack world that combining it with something … Read article “Gatsby and WordPress”
We just ran a fancy article series here on CSS-Tricks with a bunch of different articles all answering the same question. By fancy, I mean two things:
One of the reasons I enjoy working with WordPress is because of how easy this is to pull off. I'm sure any CMS has their own ways of doing this, and I don't … Read article “The Making of a “Special Series” on a WordPress Site”
This is the basics of how I work locally with a WordPress site, and then getting it to production.
Flywheel is a sponsor of CSS-Tricks, and I'm glad they are because they make great products. Flywheel is at the heart of this workflow.
First, Local by Flywheel is a tremendously easy way to spin up local WordPress sites to your liking. I use it for all my local WordPress development. It's a nice UI around little Docker containers. … Read article “#177: Local WordPress Development to Production Workflow”