We can use filters to change the autocompleter triggers in the WordPress block editor. By ‘triggers’, I mean the typed character combination we use to make an autocompleter appear. For example, by default we can use @ to populate a list of site users. We can also use [[ to select a post link from …
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We can use filters to disable autocompleters in the WordPress block editor. By default, the block editor registers three autocompleters: users, links, and blocks. To see what autocompleters are registered in our block editor, we can write something like this in the browser console: Now when we take any action that fires one of the …
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By making WordPress post meta fields available via the REST API we can access these values from our JavaScript code. This also makes it easier to debug post meta in the block editor, as we can query the post meta directly from the browser console. If you’re not sure how to make your post meta …
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I recently found myself wanting to extend the WordPress block editor’s RadioControl component. Unfortunately this component is not designed to be extended with additional functionality, so I needed a different solution. The rest of this post covers how to create a custom RadioControl component for the WordPress block editor. Get the Core Code We’ll start …
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I recently worked on a case in the WordPress block editor in which I needed to add support for clipboard events in a media iframe. In this case, the iframe was being used inside a custom version of wp.media.view.MediaFrame. While wp.media.view does not natively support custom attributes on iframes, we can create our own custom …
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When working in WordPress’ Gutenberg editor, there may be times when we wish to notify the admin user of a change or response to an action. For example, if we have a custom block that makes a remote API request, we might want to notify the user about the result of that request. Luckily, WordPress …