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If you’re new to WordPress, you need to decide if you want to build your site using self-hosted WordPress or hosted on WordPress.com. Next, you need to choose a theme which determines the look and feel of your site. WordPress themes are collections of files that specify the layout, spacing, typography, colours and interactivity of […]
Twenty Twenty-Four theme is the latest in a series of default WordPress themes. This theme shipped with the release of WordPress 6.4 on November 7, 2023. Twenty Twenty-Four is a block theme, meaning that it is composed of blocks and the whole of your site is editable. The theme has proved popular, with over half […]
Are you using the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg)? Great! Now with the various blocks you have more options for aligning images with text. There are good ways and bad ways to align images and text in WordPress’ Gutenberg editor. I’m going to show you the options and the pitfalls. This post assumes you know how […]
With version 5, the block editor – aka Gutenberg – has brought a shift in creating content in WordPress. Gutenberg blocks are now the building bricks of posts and pages. But how many are there, and what do they do? What this post covers Note that in this post I’ve used screenshots of blocks for […]
WordPress 5.0, “Bebo” launched on Thursday 6 December. A few days later, on Thursday 13 December, security release 5.0.1 came out. This is the version you’ll get now [the time of writing] if you upgrade from any WordPress install below 5.0. WordPress 5.0.2 is scheduled for Wednesday 19 December. Here’s what I’m going to cover […]
As WordPress 5.0 launches today, with a new block editor, it seems timely to revisit this presentation I gave at WordCamp Edinburgh 2018 on 17 November. This was the talk description: The new Gutenberg editor is a key part of WordPress 5.0 which is going to change the user experience of WordPress, for better or […]
With the release of WordPress 4.9.8 you might notice a new prompt on the WordPress Dashboard – Try Gutenberg. But what is it? And should you try Gutenberg? What is Gutenberg? Gutenberg is a new editing experience for WordPress which has been under development for the last year. It’s designed to modernise the way that […]
For the fourth year running, I’m pleased to say that I made it to WordCamp London. And what a conference it was! My main goals for the three days were: Attend the Contributor Day and learn enough about Git and the command line to be able to contribute to WordPress. Learn as much as I […]
It’s been three months since I last looked at the WordPress Gutenberg editor, so I thought it was time to revisit. The last version I tried was version 0.4. It’s moved on quite a bit since then. We’re now on to version 1.4. What’s new in Gutenberg? Here are some of the changes I’ve noticed […]
WordCamp Edinburgh 2017 took place at Codebase last weekend, and it was a fantastic experience. My first WordCamp was Edinburgh 2012. We were overdue another one in my home city – the last WordCamp Edinburgh was in 2015. Here are my highlights from the weekend. Expect unicorns but not much sunshine! Democratising Democracy: Lessons from using […]
