By default, WordPress doesn’t support uploading of AVIF images to the media library. Luckily this is super easy to fix with a minor addition to your theme’s functions.php file and a helpful plugin. The Solution Add the following PHP code to your theme’s functions.php file: 2. Download & activate the Lord of the Files: Enhanced […]

If you use the excellent Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) WordPress plugin and the Gutenberg editor you may notice the seamless style has no effect. Choosing either Standard (WP metabox) or Seamless (no metabox) has no visual effect on the ACF field group. ACF removed the seamless styling from Gutenberg editor due to “due to styling […]

The Gutenberg editor comes with a whole bunch of useful blocks by default but you might not want to use them all. Updated November 2020: You can now enable/disable blocks from the block inserter using the Block Manager included in WordPress 5.2+ Typically you’ll want to only allow specific blocks when customizing the CMS for […]

I recently released a free WordPress plugin called MomentoPress. This plugin allows you to easily display 360° VR photos and videos uploaded to Momento360 on your WordPress site. This is not an official plugin by Momento360 and it is not affiliated or supported by Momento360. Let’s see it in action! Here you go! You can view a […]

Today I had the pleasure of speaking at WordCamp Toronto 2017. It was an excellent and well-organized event with 2-days of fantastic WordPress talks. At WordCamp Toronto, I spoke about Virtual Reality (VR). I showed people how easy it was to create and add 360° VR content to their WordPress sites. There’s a lot of interest […]

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Toronto 2017 in October! My talk is titled The Future is Now! Virtual Reality for WordPress. In this session, we will cover the basics of creating and adding 360° VR content to your WordPress site. We will also explore ideas for creating 360° VR experiences […]

This week I had the great pleasure of speaking at WordCamp Ottawa 2017. It was a great conference with 2-days of WordPress talks, a great venue and lots of friendly people. At WordCamp Ottawa, I spoke about SVGs and how to use them in your WordPress site. I ended the presentation with a collection of […]