WP Block Dev

When I first joined Motto as CTO years ago, the developers would have a development server, either in the local network or remote, to which they would FTP transfer every file edit they needed made. This obviously wasn’t ideal because: It was slow. Download file, edit, upload, reload website was way too many steps to […]

This is a running list of all of the plugins we install in each new WordPress block theme from scratch. Some things are always needed but not included in WordPress core. This is a collection of those plugins our team and yourself can use as a checklist for every new WordPress website. Rank Math Formidable […]

Differences from Legacy Theme Development There are some major differences in the way we will approach block theme development. Here’s an outline of the key differences: No More Build Steps Previously, in order to take advantage of technologies like SASS, modern JS, or just performance optimizations, we would have a build step in our theme […]