Introduction to ARIA in Blocks and Menus Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) attributes enhance the accessibility of web components—especially complex controls like blocks and menus—by conveying semantics to assistive technologies. This article provides a comprehensive guide to implementing ARIA attributes in block-level components and menus, ensuring that your interactive elements are usable by keyboard and […]
Introduction Ensuring your WordPress site complies with WCAG 2.1 is not only a legal and ethical imperative but also expands your audience and improves usability. This comprehensive guide walks you through principles, practical steps, tools and maintenance strategies to achieve and maintain accessibility. Understanding WCAG 2.1 The Four Key Principles (POUR) Perceivable: Information must be […]
Improving Accessibility in Your WordPress Theme Accessibility ensures that all users, including those with disabilities, can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with your website. WordPress powers over 40% of the web making themes accessible is not only best practice, it’s a legal and ethical imperative. This guide offers detailed, hands-on strategies to improve accessibility in […]
Displaying Dynamic Content with Query Loops In modern web development, serving up-to-date, context-sensitive content is critical for engagement and user satisfaction. Whether you are building a blog, an eCommerce storefront, or a custom application, using query loops enables you to pull data from your database and render it dynamically on the front end. This article […]
Advanced Filtering and Ordering in WP_Query The WP_Query class is the workhorse of WordPress when it comes to retrieving posts based on complex criteria. While the basic arguments like category_name or posts_per_page handle straightforward needs, real-world applications often require layered filters and nuanced sorting. In this article, we explore advanced techniques for filtering by taxonomy, […]
Introduction When building robust WordPress plugins or themes, custom fields (post meta) allow you to extend the editing interface with bespoke data. However, accepting arbitrary user input without rigorous validation and sanitization exposes your site to security vulnerabilities, data corruption, or unexpected behavior. This article dives deeply into the save_post hook and demonstrates how to […]
Introduction Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has revolutionized WordPress development by providing an intuitive way to add custom data. With the release of ACF 5.8, developers gained the ability to create fully custom Gutenberg blocks, marrying ACF’s field-building power with the block editor’s flexibility. This article walks through every step of implementing custom ACF blocks: from […]
Introduction In modern WordPress development, Custom Post Types (CPTs) allow you to go beyond posts and pages, modeling content like books, products, portfolios, or events. Yet, powerful sites often require relationships between these post types—linking authors to books, products to reviews, or courses to instructors. This article dives deep into methods, code samples, performance considerations, […]
Displaying Custom Fields in Your Templates Custom fields are a powerful feature in content management systems—particularly in WordPress—that let you attach arbitrary metadata to posts, pages or custom post types. In this article, you’ll learn how to store, retrieve and display custom field data in your theme templates. 1. What Are Custom Fields Custom fields, […]
Introduction In the WordPress ecosystem, custom fields empower developers and site-builders to extend post types, users, taxonomies and more with bespoke data structures. Among the leading frameworks for managing these fields are Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and Pods. This article provides a thorough comparison—covering architecture, usability, extensibility, performance and community support—to help you decide which […]
