From the first version of Block Lab there have been a couple of ways of handling styling for your custom blocks. You could: Add the styling to the block template file Add the styling to the theme These were both OK, but there were a couple of weaknesses. If you added styling to the block […]
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Block Lab Pro – Early Access
Block Lab Pro is coming mid-2019. We’re hard at work on it right now. Block Lab Pro is going to take the best of the free plugin (which will continue to get better) and power it up with features that make it the perfect tool for agencies and freelancers. The features we’re building, as well […]
Continue ReadingIn The Lab: Building a Custom Form Block with Gravity Forms
One of the first things site builders realise when working with Gutenberg is that the other plugins they use don’t always play as nicely. Many plugins are adding Gutenberg support, which is great, yet the ones that are don’t always give us what we want. Because… well, we want what we want. Not what the […]
Continue ReadingIn The Lab: Building a Custom Hero Block
Today we kick-off an ongoing series of posts called “In The Lab“. These are going to be fun playground posts where we build cool things with Block Lab. 🙂 For the inaugural post of the series, we’re going to build a custom Hero Block. It’s going to be nice and simple and follow the typical […]
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Back in early 2018 I was working on a website and recognised that it was about time I started taking Gutenberg seriously. I needed to move away from the page templates I was using to offer some of the more complex layouts of the site. Now I’m not an amazing WordPress developer, but … I […]
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