Over the last several years, WordPress has introduced—and continues to iterate on—the Gutenberg block editor, full-site editing, and block themes. I’ve largely avoided full-site editing and block themes until recently. My thought was: why change when I have a workflow and tools that work? My workflow/tools included building classic themes while relying heavily on the […]
Creating a Google Calendar Event Link Builder
Recently, a stakeholder came to me with a problem. The Google Calendar events they created and shared with their audience weren’t working. If an attendee tried tapping the event link from their mobile device, it simply didn’t add that event to their calendar. Pinpointing the problem I discovered the broken feature in Google Calendar that […]
How I built a custom WordPress navigation menu
Recently, I was working on a website that required an accordion, navigation menu that would contain categories or single page links. If a category was chosen, it should expand to show child and grandchild categories, along with lists of posts within those categories. In addition, there was a need for an optional alphabetical list of […]