When I work on custom WordPress builds, it tends to be a collection of a theme, one or more custom plugins, and a series of third party plugins. For this reason, I usually opt to track the entire wp-content directory in a single Git repository. Sometimes it makes sense to track third party plugins but […]

A few months back I started exploring Tailwind CSS – a utility first CSS framework – and it has fast become my first choice for building UIs. Coming from a semantic approach using a modified BEM style of CSS, the utility-first approach took a little getting used to. I mainly struggled with how large my […]

When you start digging into WordPress partials, things really open up on the theme side. Being able to reuse templates is a nice feature and can help keep your code nice and tidy but if your templates are using WordPress’ template tags, you can easily find yourself in situations where you need the markup from […]

Updating WordPress can really start to grind on me. Everyone is constantly releasing updates for their plugins and the core team are pushing to release more and more core updates all the time. Seeing the update notification can be a real bummer. So, to keep it easy, I just bang through all updates using a […]

If you get down to business with performance optimisation, you could find yourself looking at ways to defer your scripts or even load them asynchronously. As far as I’m aware, WordPress’ built-in functions wp_register_script() and wp_enqueue_script() don’t currently take arguments for defining these attributes. But, with WordPress being WordPress, there is usually a way and […]

Building on yesterday’s tip, I’m putting this up to show how easy it is to register a custom colour palette for WordPress’ block editor; AKA Gutenberg. It’s actually something we can register as a theme feature so it’s all doable on the PHP side and is very straight-forward. Here’s the code you need;