Kittsteiner Blog

Category: WordPress

  • New plugin: product notifications

    I couldn’t find any free plugin that allows me to receive Slack notifications when a new order has been created or updated in WooCommerce. So I created it myself: https://github.com/epiphyt/product-notifications

  • Why using React for a new WordPress admin is no good idea

    Glenton Samuels commented the proposal for the future WordPress admin materials and surfaces and laid it down very clearly why using React for it is a bad idea. And I fully agree with it.

    Just to quote the conclusion, but it’s worth to read the full post:

    A full React rewrite may look cutting-edge, but it threatens the broad community, the ecosystem, and WordPress’s future sustainability. Instead, modernizing via PHP + Interactivity API + modern CSS (including View Transitions) preserves backward compatibility, performance, and accessibility while delivering a polished, modern admin experience.

    Glenton Samuels

  • Work on Form Block continues

    Time flies … When possible, the last few weeks I worked on the next big thing in Form Block: allowing you to store form submissions in your WordPress backend.

    Backend work is now nearly completed (only the delete function has to be implemented) and then only some additional settings are missing.

    I’m excited. 🎉

    List for form submissions with one submission expanded to show all submitted fields and files

  • Working on saving form submissions

    I’m currently working on saving form submissions in Form Block and already made huge progress.

    UI still needs some work (and also the field output is currently in plain text – meh – but for now, I’m pretty happy with its current state.

    Admin list in WordPress with three data sets of form submission with the submitted data

    I did also mention that the default post lists (posts, pages) ignore the defined date and time format settings. 🤔

  • Design update for Epiphyt

    What started as updating my design at Epiphyt regarding certain accessibility issues (mainly proper accessible names for some navigations as well as contrast issue fixes) ended up with a rather complex design update.

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  • Successful vacation

    When having vacation, many people want to travel. I’m different. I want to work on my projects. And so I did the last two weeks. And it was great fun by working on multiple projects to take them further. For me, developing is not just a job, it’s my passion and I also love to do it in my free time.

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  • Block editor on mobile?

    When will the block editor in WordPress become smooth on mobile? Even if you can handle it well on desktop, it’s hard to work on it on mobile. And it doesn’t make any fun.

    • It doesn’t scroll the editor to always show the last line while typing “long” content.
    • Adding a new block via Enter scrolls the whole editor weirdly, but not as expected. (The same applies to switching to a different block by taping on it.)
    • You can’t scroll down enough to see the tags while typing into its field.
    • The preview drop-down is missing (and thus doesn’t allow for third-party previews, e.g. a Fediverse preview).

    All tested on the latest iOS. And this is only what I could find spontaneously.

  • Updated “Now” page

    After a little over two weeks, I could finally update my now page, since the last to-do, updating all of my plugins to make them officially compatible with WordPress 6.8, is done.

    Next up: plugin refactoring.

    Go to “Now” page

  • Fragment Caching

    I just played a little bit with fragment caching. First downside: since you cannot filter locate_template, you can’t cache complete templates.

    Aside of that, my proof of concept worked so far, but in the end you need to consider too many edge cases, which already has blown this POC. So I think, I stop this. At least for WordPress.

  • First contribution for ActivityPub

    I recently discovered a bug in combination of ActivityPub and Multisite Language Switcher. Yesterday, I found the time to check what’s the actual problem and after great guidance from @obenland@mastodon.social I could fix it and it’s already part of the new version 5.8.0, which came out today. 🎉

    This way, contributing is really fun. 🥰