If you have ever developed custom blocks for WordPress, you have surely run into the problem of applying block styles to specific html elements of your block. Maybe you want to apply a text color to one p tag in your block, but not another. Or maybe, you want the border color block support to […]
As the developer of several WordPress Plugins, including Bible Buddy, StoragePress Self-Storage, and ContentOracle AI Chat, I have learned a lot about building plugins for WordPress. The most glaring among the things I have learned is how ugly a plugin’s codebase becomes as the plugin grows. There is no standard for how a plugin should […]
Laravel is a powerful framework that offers a whole suite of built-in goodies meant to help enormously speed up application development. Blade, its built-in templating engine, and Eloquent, the ORM it ships with, are two of the most especially useful utilities Laravel brings to the table. As you build apps in Laravel, you will inevitably […]
One of the unique and interesting challenges that arises when developing new block types for WordPress sites is getting access to post-specific data from the database in your block. Access to this data is needed both on the user-facing frontend, where visitors will see your posts, and on the editor backend, where post authors write […]
So you want to implement a shopping cart for guest users? If you have ever developed an application that includes a “shopping cart” feature, you have surely been faced with the question: How should I handle shopping carts for users who are not logged in to accounts. This can be a puzzling question. It is […]
