Blog posts about WordPress by WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

Working with WordPress on a laptop at an airport

Explaining how to use WordPress hooks, and how to fine-tune them to improve legibility and code efficiency.

Back in May, Sardinian ”open source evangelist and programmer” Matteo Enna got in touch and interviewed me for his blog.

How to mock up a website design when every page can be built individually and controlled completely by the editorial staff.

Since the release of WordPress 5.2, authors and editors can put together their own reusable content components without needing to do any programming work. This is thanks to a powerful combination of Reusable Blocks and the Group Block.

Screenshot of the Gutenberg colour picker

Using CSS variables through the WordPress Theme Customizer to make custom colour schemes in the Gutenberg Editor.

WordPress allows you to embed content from other websites like YouTube, Facebook and the like. But did you know that you can embed WordPress posts too? Not just from other websites, but also from your own site… into your own site!

Photos from the annual WordPress conference – the biggest in the world in 2019.

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How I use WordPress’ template part logic, but additionally pass scoped data to the template part.

WordPress’ Gutenberg Editor allows you to do much more than create and edit content in a single content column.

The user experience nicety of a legible date string.

Mark Howells-Mead on stage at WordCamp Zurich

I’ve been using WordPress since the very first version and love it. In a talk at WordCamp Zurich, I shared some of the experiences I’ve gained as a CMS developer, website builder, content manager and blogger since the late 1990s.

This website turns thirteen today.

How to create your own Gutenberg block with only a full or wide alignment option, instead of the usual possibilities.

The farewell photo of my fourth office desk in Switzerland, before I start afresh in the Bernese Oberland.

Some people believe that WordPress isn’t suitable for more than a simple website. Throughout my career, I’ve proved that assumption wrong many times over.

I’m moving to Swiss web agency Say Hello as partner, client consultant and full-stack developer from January 2019.

How I swapped out individual sections of a high-traffic site to make best use of WordPress’ REST API.

The team and presenters at WordCamp Lausanne 2018

I presented at the WordCamp conference in Lausanne a couple of weeks ago, on the subject of website usability. The video of my talk is now online.

I’ve been using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress for nearly five years, and it’s implemented in every project I’ve created or worked on since I began using it. At work, our WordPress Themes depend on Theme Options, which are set using custom fields created by the plugin. In order to make the technique […]