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Apache 301 Redirect Not Working

I updated my .htaccess file to redirect an article to the https version of the site. I discovered Apache 301 Redirect not working.  The following line, which should work, didn’t. I tried placing the line at the top of the .htaccess file and that still didn’t do the trick.  Since that didn’t work, I tried…

How to add a modal block in Gutenberg using React createPortal

In this video, we’ll show you how to use the React createPortal function to add a modal container in the WordPress Gutenberg editor.  The issue is that we want to create a block that gives users the ability to add modals to their WordPress page.  However, this becomes challenging because we are tied to the…

How to add an inline toolbar to a RichText block

We’re building a custom Gutenberg block and it’s built using 3 RichText components.  The problem we’re running into is that the formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough, and link) for each of these 3 RichText blocks is located at the block level.  We would love to have them inline for a better user experience.  In this video,…

Web Development Basics

Starting at the big picture level, web development includes what you see when you visit a website and what you can do on that website.  The “what you see” part of a website, or its layout and design, are typically built by frontend web developers.  The “what you can do” part of a website, or…

Create Child Theme

Benefits of Child Theme Whenever you make changes to a WordPress theme, regardless of whether the theme is free or costs money, you should create a child theme. Using a child theme will ensure that any changes that you make to the theme will persist whenever the theme is updated in the future. In addition, you…

Using the & (Ampersand) in Sass

What the heck is the & in Sass?  It’s a way to super power your Sassy self when writing Sass! Just think of it like this: & is a variable representing the parent selector. So this Sass: Equals this CSS: And this Sass: Equals this CSS: and this Sass: Equals this CSS: Get it?  It’s…

How to namespace Bootstrap

In this video we’ll show you how to quickly namespace Bootstrap css. We build a lot of WordPress sites so many times we need to namespace bootstrap so our styles don’t conflict with the editor styles from the WordPress dashboard. It’s really easy and kinda fun.

Add block alignment to Gutenberg blocks

In this video we’ll show you how to add block alignment support for wide and full width Gutenberg blocks.  As a bonus we’ll even show you how to set a default block alignment for any custom Gutenberg blocks you may build.

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