Category: <span>Open Source</span>

Musings on web, technology, worklife and more.

  • Core Editor Tech Lead for WordPress 6.5

    As of 2nd April 2024, WordPress 6.5 “Regina” was made available for download. During this cycle I’ve been acting as co-Editor Tech Lead for the release. It’s been a great experience and one which I would definitely like to repeat in the future. For now though enjoy WP 6.5 and be sure to check out … Continued

  • Building a standalone block editor in WordPress using Gutenberg

    A few month’s ago I merged a PR to Gutenberg Core for a new documentation tutorial called Building a custom block editor. The tutorial was originally produced for my own learning, but I was encouraged to add it to the official documentation by members of the Gutenberg core team and the WordPress community. The tutorial … Continued

  • Some contributions to the Gutenberg Core Navigation Block

    Over the past few months, the team I work in at Automattic were allocated to spend some time improving the experimental Navigation block in Gutenberg Core. This is how I was able to help.

  • Introducing FetchPjax – PJAX (PushState + Ajax) navigation functionality using the native Fetch API

    For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a new JavaScript library to handle PJAX using the native Fetch API that’s build right into modern browsers. As a result of these efforts I’m pleased to announce the release of FetchPjax. TDLR; you can grab fetch-pjax on npm or view the source on Github. What is … Continued