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The Real Gutenberg Blocks Win: You Can Mix and Match
As more folks are using the WordPress block editor, I’m seeing more than the occasional Twitter poll asking which set of blocks web builders prefer. It’s a question that makes sense, I suppose. You want to figure which set of building blocks is going to form your baseline toolset. A lot of people like the…
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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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How to display blueprints
What PeakZebra offers is more than a theme. Actually it’s a lot more, but the “lot more” actually is varies from one blueprint scenario to the next. And a given blueprint could actually look a lot of different ways. Yes, what you’d normally call the “theme” is tied pretty closely to what the site does,…
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The first LiveTheme goes live
I’ve gone back and forth a ridiculous number of times about what, exactly, PeakZebra should be. What was the offer? What was PeakZebra going to sell and how was it going to sell it. I’ve had to learn a lot of self discipline when it comes to avoiding the distractions of new shiny ideas and…
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Thinking Logically
The early hurdles for PeakZebra mostly had to do with getting tables to display in a sweet, full-function way on the front end. My take is that we completely crushed that particular challenge. The next hard thing was harder, though. It was the complex problem of how to create custom logic and computation within an…
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Bits, pieces, and components
I’ve known in the back of my head all along that, while there was a place for the multi-field form blocks I was building to capture things like customer names and addresses, the “pure” way of attacking my block-based application building project was to create a bunch of generic fields. This is what existing WordPress…
