JĆ¼rg Hunziker

Articles by JĆ¼rg

Setting up a local development environment for WordPress with @wordpress/env

Setting up a local development environment for a PHP project is often harder than it should be. You could setup a local PHP and database server or do the same in a virtual machine. But ā€¦

How to test your Gutenberg blocks with Jest and Puppeteer

We recently achieved 1000+ active installs of our Bootstrap Blocks plugin. By reaching this milestone the pressure to keep the plugin backward compatible while changing existing ā€¦

[DEPRECATED] Setting up a local development environment for WordPress with @wordpress/scripts

DEPRECATION WARNING The env scripts of the @wordpress/scripts package have been deprecated in favor of @wordpress/env. This blogpost describes how to use the new package: ā€¦

Add an image selector to a Gutenberg block in WordPress

Our goal in this tutorial is to add a background image selector to a custom Gutenberg block.

Writing a wrapper block for Gutenberg in WordPress

Since Gutenberg blocks are built as independent components they can be used in every layout and can be combinend however it fits your design. This is a very common practice nowadays. ā€¦

How to extend existing Gutenberg blocks in WordPress

This tutorial explains step by step how it's possible to extend existing Gutenberg blocks in WordPress.

5 things you should know about responsive images

The srcset and sizes attributes are fully supported in all major browsers for a few years now. Their usage seems to be pretty straightforward. But there are some pitfalls that can ā€¦

OctoberCMSā€¦ or why do we need yet another CMS?

A short introduction about OctoberCMS our newest companion to realize delightful CMS experiences.
JĆ¼rg Hunziker
Software Developer, Apprentice Trainer