With v1.5 of Block Lab, we released a feature that’s easy to miss unless you know what to look for. It’s not visible in the Block Lab UI, but is something, behind the scenes, you can work with when developing with Block Lab. You can now programmatically add and configure blocks. The use case for […]
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New Taxonomy Field for Block Lab Pro
Good news today for our Block Lab Pro Early Access Pass holders. You now have access to the Taxonomy field. When adding this field to your blocks you can set it to either pull a list of categories or tags. If you’re building a block that pulls in posts, e.g. a “check out these posts” […]
Continue ReadingAn even better block building experience with v1.2.2
Today we release version 1.2.2 of Block Lab. This version introduces a bunch of user interface improvements that make it even easier to build blocks within the WordPress admin, particularly for those just getting started with Block Lab. There are 3 general areas of improvement: 1. Block Properties in Sidebar The block properties (slug, icon, […]
Continue ReadingNew Feature: A better way of handling Block Styling (CSS)
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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