Elementor is a popular WordPress page builder plugin that allows you to create beautiful websites easily. As a developer, you may create custom post types for various reasons on a website. By default, Elementor will not be usable for custom post types. Documentation for Elementor is clear on how to add support and use Elementor […]
The popular WordPress page builder plugin Elementor recently released a new widget called Nested Tabs. The Nested Tabs widget allows for far greater customization and flexibility with the content. It Replaces the old Tabs widget if you have containers enabled. The old Tabs widget supports anchor links (links that end with #anchor-link-here), allowing you to […]
Recently I worked on a WordPress project that was undergoing a site refresh, and had frequent color changes. To save the hassle of having to go in and update colors for everything and also give the client control over the colors, I decided that the best course of action would be to make the colors […]
In the WordPress 6.5 Update, WordPress introduced the Interactivity API. The Interactivity API allows “developers to create rich, interactive user experiences”. The main purpose for the Interactivity API is to provide a standard way for developers to develop interactive experiences when developing Gutenberg Blocks. I like the idea of a standard, “WordPress way” of developing […]
Recently I needed to implement a way to return custom taxonomy terms sorted by their latest posts. For example, imagine we have a movie review site, and we use the default category taxonomy as “Movie Categories”. Maybe they will have the following taxonomy terms: Getting taxonomy terms with get_terms() We can easily get the category […]
When working on a WordPress site, I often find myself using WordPress’s command-line interface tool called WP-CLI. With WP-CLI you can do a lot of tasks that normally require a separate plugin to do, or tasks that normally may be challenging using just the website. I will go over some of my most used commands […]
Overview WordPress is a popular platform to use when developing websites. It is easy to spin up and deploy, easy to develop with, and most importantly, provides huge options for extensibility due to its large plugin and theme directory. WordPress and its plugins allow webmasters to add features and modify their websites even without any […]
In this article, we will explore how we might go about implementing ourselves instead of using a plugin. We will assume we have a basic understanding of HTML, PHP, and how WordPress's theme or plugin works to add our own custom code.