Junaid Bhura a web developer in Melbourne, Australia - specializing in WordPress development.

Category: Block Editor


Turn off WordPress 6 block layout classes and styles

I actually can’t believe this feature was shipped in WordPress core. To be fair, it is marked as “experimental”. But I’ve encountered problems on a couple of sites already.

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Why custom Gutenberg blocks belong in themes, not plugins

Let me start off by prefacing that this blog post is specifically about custom blocks developed for completely custom designed websites. Not blocks built for general-purpose, third-party or off-the-shelf use, which obviously belong in plugins, since they can be distributed and consumed as such. This post is aimed at developers who build custom block-based WordPress […]

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How to extend blocks in the Gutenberg editor on WordPress

Important: This post assumes that you already know how to work with JavaScript ES6 and have some experience in working with and setting up custom blocks on WordPress using Webpack. Gutenberg Blocks With the introduction of WordPress 5, we now have a new powerful tool at our disposal: Blocks. Blocks let us build custom experiences […]

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