Tag: gutenberg

  • Limiting Featured Image Dimensions in WordPress

    Limiting Featured Image Dimensions in WordPress

    As a follow up to my last post about limiting file sizes during uploads, I had to come back to the problem with limiting image sizes for featured images. Not bytes this time, but pixel dimensions. Still being a bit of a block editor newb, this was an interesting challenge for me, and I was…

  • Quick Tip: Disable WordPress Block Editor Fullscreen Mode

    Quick Tip: Disable WordPress Block Editor Fullscreen Mode

    I don’t know why, but any time I edit posts on this site, the block editor always goes into fullscreen mode. Even if I disable it, the next time I edit a post or refresh, it goes right back. My preferences aren’t being saved. Oh well, we can fix that with some PHP! Many thanks…

  • Half-Baked Plugins: Embeds for Twitch and Gutenberg

    Half-Baked Plugins: Embeds for Twitch and Gutenberg

    In my forever attempt to learn and understand Gutenberg, React, and ES6 (which I am failing at horribly) I sometimes build WordPress plugins just for the learning experience. I don’t have any full intent on releasing these to the WordPress.org Plugin Repository because I honestly don’t feel like dealing with end users and support. I’m…

  • Gutenberg, Code, and Highlighting

    Gutenberg, Code, and Highlighting

    One of the great things about Gutenberg is the ability to compartmentalize different types of content within blocks.  One of the blocks that I’ve been using a lot of recently is the code block.  This block by default will render something like this: While this is acceptable, it’s not very pretty.  I used to use…

  • CSS & JS Concatenation in WordPress

    CSS & JS Concatenation in WordPress

    At WordPress.com VIP one of the features we have on our platform is automated concatenation of Javascript and CSS files when registered through the core WordPress wp_enqueue__*() functions. We do this using the nginx-http-concat plugin: This plugin was written to work with nginx, but the server running derrick.blog is Apache.  I’ve worked around this and…