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Common Codebase Versus Custom Deployments
These days I’m spending a lot of my time making sure the PeakZebra product works. But it’s clear to me that quite possibly the biggest challenge I have before me is dealing with the dead certainty that there will be lots of customizations made to client instance of PeakZebra. In a way, that’s PeakZebra’s secret…
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Adding Logic Cleanly
With the WordPress block editor, you get a reasonably good editor for managing the pieces that make up a typical web page. And that can include things like forms and interactive charts and so on. For that reason, PeakZebra uses the block editor as the interface for any clients that want to build or customize…
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Best WordPress Blocks Plugins to Push Your Gutenberg Imagination
Gutenberg arrived on the WordPress scene five years ago by now, but plugins that implement more-than-basic blocks were relatively slow in coming. Still, five years: so you might think everyone would have it all figured out by now. But no. And plugins that implement more-than-basic blocks were relatively slow in coming. For one thing, there’s…
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Onboarding
I’m banging away on what I guess you could call the second sprint of PeakZebra blocks (except that it’s just me, so it’s a pretty thin scrum), but it’s hard to work on applications like CRM (built from blocks) without thinking about onboarding. Onboarding is an enormous opportunity for WordPress, just because so many (including…
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Soft Release Minus One
My original vision fro PZ Blocks was that they would be relatively low cost and that they would require minimal interaction with PeakZebra once you’d downloaded. You know, if you’re not charging a lot, you simply can’t afford to spend a lot of time tweaking things for individual customers. My thought was that you’d get…
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Wordcamp Phoenix Slides
Here are the slides from my presentation at WCPHX, Using Blocks to Build Applications. Note that most of the presentation was a live demo. I’ve included the backup slides I made in case the demo went south– a series of screen shots that captures much of what I showed.
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GutenTour: JetFormBuilder Block Collection by CrocoBlock
I’ve headed out on a world tour of Gutenberg blocks. Third-party blocks. There are starting to be quite a few of them out there, sometimes singly, sometimes in groups of layout and design-related blocks. Especially for the groups of them, you’ve typically got to pony up a few bucks to license them. But one I…
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Theft Revisited: What Gatsby JS Should Steal from WordPress in 2022
A long, long year ago, it seemed prudent to bring up a few things that worked well in WordPress that were missing in Gatsbyjs. For instance, one-click exchangeable Gatsby js themes. Some, but not many, of those holes have been filled in various ways, but others remain (and probably will remain). But time has pushed…
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The WordPress Developer in 2021
I suspect that being a WordPress developer isn’t especially fashionable these days. You’re not a rat fink or a fool if you’re a WP developer, but you’re not the it kid. At least not in the developer crowd. WordPress has just been around too long to be the thing. That said, developing software in the…
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Future URL
One thing I always wished I’d had in my last “real” job (as an editorial director) was a way to link from web content I was currently writing to content I knew we were creating in the near future. A future URL. Of course, I could have just written in the links, but they’d by…
