Brian Coords

Github Copilot and the WordPress Gold Rush?

Brian Coords January 8th New year, new you? Is that a thing? ↓ I don't know about you, but I'm a chronic New Year's over-planner. I love the chance to set myself some goals that I'll grow to hate and eventually ignore. This year, I'm trying very hard to boost my personal writing/blogging habit (along with the usual "more exercise, less food and twitter"). That means I'm coming out of the gate this year with a lot of content. Will it last? Time can only tell. My Recent Writing Blog Posts vs...

about 2 years ago • 3 min read

Of Mastodon and the WordPress site editor

Brian Coords November 11th Of Mastodon and the WordPress site editor ↓ Happy Friday! Last week I spent some time digging into the block editor and trying to understand the #!&@#ing logic behind alignments and widths. I started by venting on Twitter but ended up writing a post about what I've learned. If you're coming from the Bootstrap/Tailwind mindset for widths/containers, I recommend giving it a read: “Normal” width websites in the block editorFellow WordPress developer Teron Bullock is...

about 2 years ago • 2 min read

Fancy WordPress Javascript and Fun with Full Site Editing

Brian Coords October 22nd Fancy WordPress Javascript and Fun with Full Site Editing ↓ Happy Saturday! It's been a while since I wrote anything here, but I have been busy digging into all things WordPress. Last month I appeared on the WP Builds podcast talking about the WP Feature Notifications project- an attempt to clean up your admin notices and alerts once and for all. It's my first attempt at contributing to WordPress and it's been an... interesting education in open source...

about 2 years ago • 3 min read

WordPress 5.9, Full Site Editing, Spotify, and More

Brian Coords February 18th WordPress 5.9, Full Site Editing, Spotify, and More ↓ WordPress 5.9 and full site editing was a major focus of last week, and you'll see that in some of the articles below. I also spent a lot of time supporting the acquisition and relaunch of MasterWP, the newsletter for WordPress Pros. I definitely recommend adding MasterWP to your WP newsletter feed as well, as we have some great things in the works.As always feel free to respond to this email and follow me on...

about 2 years ago • 2 min read

Mastering Theme Development with In The Loop

Brian Coords November 18th Mastering Theme Development with In The Loop ↓ Happy Friday! Are you like me: a WordPress custom theme developer who has no idea how to handle the block editor? Then boy do I have the podcast episode for you! I promise that it will not answer any questions you might have, but it sure asks them out loud ! Truth is, WordPress is getting weird and hard and we're probably a few years from being through the tunnel to the "new WordPress" when it comes to custom theme...

about 2 years ago • 2 min read