The website for A Day of REST is now powered by the REST API, and uses React. Better yet, it’s available on Github! Happy exploring. Nice work by my podcast co-host Joe Hoyle, with design by Noel Tock.
Tom McFarlin has yet another great post talking about design patterns in WordPress. There is a time and place for Object Oriented and Procedural approaches.
Mel Choyce explains how to design a Gutenberg block for restaurant menus. Mel provides a Sketch file, and if you want to use the design to build a restaurant block, give Mel credit and a link in your plugin readme.txt.
In terms of free themes, Hueman sure is a knockout. I’m not even much for magazine themes, but if you have a photo-heavy site with plenty of content, I really love the design and feel of this theme. Built by Alexander Agnarson, it appears to have been released November 1st, and was still a couple more…
If you’re a developer, then i highly recommend reading this “Cult of the Complex” post from Jeffrey Zeldman on A List Apart. Zeldman covers the trend in the tech industry to make things (such as front end development) far more complicated than it needs to be: “The question for web designers should never be how…
Lift is a WordPress-powered product, design and consultancy business. I’ve been following Chris Wallace, a Partner at Lift, for a long time. I’ve always known they do a lot of work for television and other interactive media, and this morning I discovered they were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Program. The nomination is…
Ella van Durpe notes “the first Gutenberg release of 2020 includes not less than 180 PRs 😍crafted by more than 56 contributors.” Highlights include a new block for multiple buttons, accessibility improvements to the editing interface, and a refactoring of the button component. You can also “Enable Full Site Editing” in the Gutenberg “Experiments” panel….
