Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) version 6.6 introduces ACF Blocks v3, which brings a new editing experience for blocks, compatible with the Block iFrame. While this is a fantastic feature for many use cases, there are times when you simply want to force editors to click Edit and work directly with the block fields—no preview, no [ ]
Update 14th June 2023: As part of my demo of ACF Blocks at WordCamp Europe, this code was updated and modernised further and is available on GitHub: https://github.com/lgladdy/wceu-acf-block-demo ACF s upcoming 6.0 release brings support for block.json blocks, which means it s now possible to build standalone, reusable ACF Blocks which contain all the fields, scripts, styles [ ]
For the last couple of months in my day job, I ve been working some significant changes to Advanced Custom Fields block editor integration system, ACF Blocks. ACF Blocks was first introduced to support WordPress 5.0 s initial implementation of the block editor back in ACF PRO 5.8, and as you can imagine that looked and worked [ ]
The BBC is running the UK s first live 4K UHD HDR broadcast trial for the Russian 2018 World Cup. It s broadcast via the BBC iPlayer app directly on compatible smart TVs, The BBC do have a list of compatible TVs, but this isn t a complete list. Due to constraints in live encoding of UHD material, [ ]
This morning was the first live qualifying of Formula One available in Ultra HD on Sky Q, and it s looking like it s caused issues for lots of people. There are reports on Twitter and Sky s forums of numerous issues Part Recorded or Failed for Qualifying this morning. Other people report green screens, artefacts and blocky [ ]
22nd March Edit: Version 4 of the EPG rolled out today to all users. This changes the way the data is loaded from UDP to TCP, and should fix this bug. There s a common bug with Sky Q that results in people seeing empty blue squares where the thumbnails should be. I ve tried to help [ ]
It s been a few years since we got into digging around Sky+HD s UPnP control protocol, but having recently updated to Sky Q, there are a few changes that break the way we were talking to the box. Backwards Compatibility The Sky Q box contains pretty much the same UPnP advertised control system as Sky+HD, and [ ]
It s over 24 hours since the iPhone 6S became available for pre-ordering or reservation at your local Apple Store come the 25th February, and it s safe to say Apple have way more of these things than they did the iPhone 6 last fall, as you can still make a reservation for a few models and [ ]
Update: The developers of MAMP recommend the following workaround: Workaround for the 10.10 Preview 5 bug: Rename the file “envvars” located in /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin into “_envvars” If you re running MAMP Pro 3 and you installed Yosemite preview 5, you ve probably noticed Apache won t start anymore, with the following error: dyld: Symbol not found: _iconv Referenced from: [ ]
Following on from my last blog post about modernising WordPress development with grunt, we ve been using the process for a few months at Storm and have been slowly making it better. This week, while working on pretty heavy project, we noticed that our compiled single CSS file was a huge 6,500 lines and ~180kb. This [ ]