In this post we’ll look at how to add custom post meta settings to the Gutenberg sidebar, in “Document” tab, rather than relying on adding meta boxes the traditional (and quite honestly much more manual) way. If you’ve worked with WordPress a while before Gutenberg was a thing, you’re probably familiar with adding custom post […]
In this post I’ll attempt to create an overview of how to create custom REST API endpoints and perform requests for them in a custom Gutenberg block. That is, making requests with fetch methods for information not available in WordPress’ registered data stores. A friendly reminder: most basic information are already available in WordPress’ data […]
This tutorial is for you who want to implement an autocomplete search in WordPress, where we are in full control of the returned matches. We will apply an autocomplete to the standard WordPress search, but the code highly flexible so you can customize the query to your needs. Whether it is a more specific query […]
This guide is for you who have a custom post type (CPT) and want an advanced search page that searches for results within this CPT. In the search form you can set up different inputs for searching within different fields; post title, post content, any type of custom meta or by custom taxonomy. In this […]
Any WordPress developer should be able to develop on a local webserver. It’s quick and direct way to see your code in action. In this post I’ll go through installing and setting up a webserver application on your computer (both Windows and MacOS), including how to solve the problems that may come with. There are […]
In a recent WordPress update it is now possible and pretty simple to add custom meta fields to menu items. In this post we’ll learn how to add our custom settings to menu items, update their settings, and finally how to take the meta data in use. Recently WordPress announced support for adding custom fields […]
In this post we’ll learn how to add your custom HTML and settings to any of WordPress’ standard widgets or others. Using those settings we’ll learn different tricks in how to manipulate the widgets behaviour accordingly. The first part; adding and saving your custom settings, is fairly easy. The second part depends on what specifically […]
This is a checklist of 8 things you as a webmaster or owner of a WordPress site can do to improve SEO and search engine ranking in 2020. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a set of rules and guidelines for optimizing your website in order to achieve higher ranking in search engines. In today’s digital […]
This post is for you who manages a WordPress site that has a lot of content, possibly many pages structured in hierarchy, and wish for better navigation outside the main menu. In order to help navigate the site a custom menu related to the current post will help tremendously. The problem with placing a menu […]
WordPress allows using so-called Walker classes for traversing and displaying elements in an hierarchical structure. In this post we’ll learn about how to create, implement and customize our own walker class to customize our menu output. The most known use of customization with Walker classes in WordPress is for menus, but in reality WordPress uses […]