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Building a 3D immersive resort experience on the web
Explore Davui is an interactive 3D island that runs in the browser. Users can explore 360˚ photos taken on the island by clicking into hotspots. This is a…
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Agentic Card Sorting – A Hybrid Approach to Open Card Sorts
Card sorting is the standard way to find out how people actually group content, but recruiting twenty participants usually costs a few weeks of calendar time. On smaller…
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Introducing the block editor extension toolkit
I’m excited to announce my latest WordPress hobby project that has morphed into an essential part of my site building practice: Block Editor Extension Toolkit (Beet). I’m a…
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Desk Buddy – Multimodal Physical Product Design
This past fall I had the opportunity to work on designing and prototyping a physical product to experiment with multimodal experience design as part of the MSHFID program…
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ScrapBlok – A custom WordPress block for layered compositions
This experimental WordPress block came from two sources of inspiration. First, at WordCamp U.S. I attended the talk by Stephanie Stelzer about Disney’s creative approach to modular yet…
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WordCamp 2025 Speaker: Building Resilient Interfaces by Embracing Fluid Design
This year I was excited to have my talk proposal accepted and to have the opportunity to speak at WordCamp alongside some truly talented folks I’ve always looked…
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Quick Tip: Enable Markdown Style Formatting in ACF Text and Text Area Fields with Filters
Have you ever run into this problem while developing? The design calls for a headline with an emphasized word or tagline. This would be no problem when using…
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Quick Tip: How to Auto Register all your Custom Blocks with WordPress 6.8
When developing either a multi-block plugin, or a theme that supports multiple custom blocks, you have to make sure all blocks get registered in PHP for them to…
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Statamic vs WordPress – Getting Familiar and Understanding the Differences
I’m a huge proponent of the power of WordPress and it is without a doubt my default web-based solution. That said, its always a good idea to check…
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Build Custom Post Types with Structured Meta Fields in WordPress – Without 3rd Party Plugins like ACF
A common pattern in WordPress development, especially in agency settings, is creating a custom post type that is almost entirely structured meta fields, rather than long-form editor content.…
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Headless WordPress with Astro Part 3 – Working with Custom Post Types and Custom Fields
In the last lesson of this series we went through the basic setup of a blog with pagination, taxonomies, and the typical index and single page views that…
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Headless WordPress with Astro Part 2: Pagination and Tags Support
Welcome to part 2 of this series of building a headless site with WordPress and Astro. In this section, we’ll add pagination to our blog’s index page, create…
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Headless WordPress with Astro – Build a Simple Blog from Scratch with Tailwind CSS
Astro has been the hottest new framework on the block for a little while now, in this post we’ll explore how to hook it up with WordPress to…
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How to Build Multiple ACF Blocks Within a Single Plugin or Theme | Block Creator 10
This tutorial will be a little different than most of the others in this series. Rather than follow along for building a specific block or learning a specific…
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How to Build Custom Blocks Using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) in WordPress | Block Creator 09
In this lesson we’ll go over the basics for creating custom blocks with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. If you’ve been following along with the course so far,…
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How to Build Responsive Designs in the WordPress Editor by Extending the Core Columns Block
One of the most frequently cited limitations of the WordPress block editor is the lack of true responsive design options that are found in full fledged site builders…
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How to Pass Data Between Custom Blocks with Block Context | Block Creator 08
In the past few lessons, we’ve explored how to create nested blocks. This is a super powerful design pattern. In this lesson, we’ll take this a step further…
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How to Package Multiple Custom Blocks Together and Curate the Editing Experience in WordPress | Block Creator 07
In this lesson we’ll take a short break from directly developing blocks. Instead, we’ll look at how to package our blocks together in a plugin file and customize…