love the new camera, looks better quality

Great video, what benifits we get if we skip tools like Local or Xamp etc

Thans for sharing!. I'm using Laragon which is superfast, all-in-one tool and you have a https site in WordPress up and running in a few clicks.

What are the benefits of this over Flywheel Local or the similar tool from WordPress?

Get off the stage, Brian!

Thanks Brian. I'm on Windows and I'm stuck on 3:53 because I'm not sure where 'wp' is. :( Crap. I have to install wp-cli. Lol. Thank you for mentioning that. >:( UPDATE: Was able to set up wp-cli. Manually set up a path. However, DBngin did not create a path to mysql as 'wp db create' does not recognize mysql. I tried to manually find mysql.exe and set a path to it. wp-cli still cannot find it. I GIVE UP. LOL.

Have you tried DDEV? You don't get that nice GUI but I think you can get up and running faster and you end up with a really flexible dev environment

No Linux support for this apps :(

Brian, what makes Herd better than a tool like LocalWP?

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing Brian - subscribed!

Herd is great! Using the Windows version since it was released on a daily basis and as a replacement for Local by Flywheel. Adding DBngin and TablePlus makes it an awesome development toolkit!

They have windows support. I use it everyday.

Thanks for sharing! It’s great to see that Herd could be used for both Laravel and WordPress development.

Interesting, I haven’t used Herd, but I do use Valet, which, as you probably know, is more command-line driven. The only difference is that you have an app with a UI with Herd, I guess. It would be interesting to see if Valet is actually being used under the hood. I also use WP-CLI and a generic script to fire all commands with prompts for database names, usernames, emails, and passwords, etc. Nice video and insight-always interesting to see other devs’ workflows. 👍

Thank you for the instructions. A very good method for me as a beginner to learn how to use the command line.

Oops. Not on windows. Okay. Thanks for the video though. You're doing great

Thank you for this content. I will be studying all of your videos!

After a year I think it would be nice to have option to make a pattern - just like you made a custom block, but pattern, save custom css inside pattern and one click option to convert pattern to block. Sometimes in the past I used CBB plugin (Content Blocks Builder) - it has some nice workflow to create blocks from blocks, patterns etc, but unfortunately not in core way. Hope WP core team will move in this area. As always - great video tutorial, Best, Paul

Good demo. Learned a lot. But is promoting ai usage ethical? Washington Post just reported that a 100 word ai email uses a bottle of water to produce. Elon Musk operated illegal gas generators to power his ai plant. Microsoft is reopening the 3 mile island nuclear plant to power ai. People are just playing around with this burning up the planet. A bottle of water for a 100 word email!

Few things I would do different: 01. Sticky header - if you use css i recommend to calc() as the frontend admin bar. This variable below handles different heights for mobile and desktop: header.wp-block-template-part { position: sticky; top: calc(0px + var(--wp-admin--admin-bar--height, 0px)); z-index: 9; } 02. Header alignement: menu is not centered, but it's easy to fix.button and logo should be in group with same fixed width. 03. If first heading is H1 - it's better to make soft enter to prevent double H1 on page ( [shift] + [enter] ). For making inline color I would register inline color, but without adding PHP / JS with just CSS I would use bold or cursive inline style and style it by CSS in Site Editor Custom CSS section. As always - it was pleasure to watch. Best, Paul

This is actually a very nice and followable tutorial on gutenberg block development. Thx!

I'll love a tutorial how to develop a Synced Pattern Overrides in php to distribuite with a theme. Synced Pattern Overrides looks very powerful.

I really hope native CPT's will come to core. I was hoping it would happen with WordPress 6.7, but I guess we're gonna have to wait longer for that to happen... Great video!

I appreciate that you're going from start to finish with a practical example - explaining each step & the reasoning behind it. Please keep up the great work!

Can you build a tabs block/pattern with core?

This is very helpful. In the speed builds, with all the switching back and forth between players, you can't see as well what's being done. I would have liked to see how you built that header, even if it went overtime. Maybe do a, "here's my build official" vs "here's me doing some extra interesting things I didn't have time for."

00:04 Creating a custom block in Gutenberg for WordPress with OpenAI integration 01:55 Creating a custom AI block in WordPress using OpenAI 05:57 Building a custom AI block in WordPress 07:55 Creating a generate tweet function and importing button component 12:01 Create a custom REST API endpoint for security 14:04 Implementing permissions for API endpoint access 17:51 Generate a tweet using OpenAI API for social media management 19:33 Ensure response is clean and contains necessary information 23:03 Using WordPress function add_query_arg to pass parameters and generate tweet 25:02 Custom AI blocks in WordPress can return more data via API endpoints for testing and customization. 28:44 Integrate AI into custom block using PHP for secure server-level interactions 30:22 Integrate AI capabilities into WordPress with OpenAI Crafted by Merlin AI.

Super cool use case! This gave me several ideas for little projects I'd love to build

Thanks a lot for all your contributions 🙏

Thanks! Clear, nice and helpfull!

Wow, amazing content, this is how you move Wordpress forward. Not yelling! Many people who use Visual Builder do not understand that it is essential to have version control of files/code. I often use Bricks Builder and love it, but I also happen to develop sites where is essential to have control over what happens in the theme/plugin.

Very cool and exciting, thanks for the demo and backstory - much appreciated.

I really like this. Definitely the right direction for the block editor. I have always liked gutenberg for editing content; I do believe it is a way better experience than just custom fields; I just don't want to see wordpress trying to become a wix competitor. Also, page builders need to start taking gutenberg seriously. Etch has the right idea for sure.

How to get custom post type in a acf block template

Great work Brian 💪 If you do another one let me know and I'll ask lots of irritating questions in the live chat as you build.

Many thanks, very well explained!

Can't wait to see core vanilla Wordpress custom field user friendly

The explanations are great, and if you were just streaming it would be fine. But if you want to practice for the speed build, I think you should just build. If you want to simulate Jamie asking questions maybe you could have an additional timer that goes off every 5-10 minutes and do an explanation, or field questions from chat. If you were just building, it is possible you would have more questions from those watching.

4 second for External API Request is too much. Wordpress admin also has lot's of external requests (wp_http). To optimize wordpress admin for speed you may need to block some wp_http external requests.

This looks amazing Brian! Is it possible to save fields to custom tables through the editor?

Can you make 101 theme building series for beginners? could be a good introduction to php

Thank you. After doing a bootcamp, and applying to 1000's of jobs this past year...I'm going to pivot and start my own website dev company, making wordpress sites for clients and I'm trying to figure out where to set up my local development. Your video was super helpful. Do you think I should use wordpress/env? Would I also need Local?

Nice! I love how Brian critiques the site as he’s building it. Legend!

I learned a lot. Thanks!

May I ask how you made it so that the custom post type template has editable blocks in them? Currently for a template I usually have the header block at the top, post content block in the middle with some different block spacing and/or width setting, and the footer block. When I make a new custom post item, I manually copy over the blocks I need from another post, or use patterns or something like that. What I'm looking to get done is to have each new post of a certain post type be "preloaded" with a couple of "synched patterns" (so I don't have to do this manually all the time). Kinda like you have in your book custom post type above. I can't find the video you mention around 1:00 minutes. How did you achieve this or do you have a link to that video?

Hi Brian, Off topic question. I am building a simple site using 2024 theme and core blocks. I am trying to find information on how to add Google AdSense code to websites built on Block themes. All the tutorials and videos are for Classic themes where they update the header file or body file. Not sure that's how to do it on sites built on Block themes. Can you shed some light on how can one add AdSense code to block websites? Thanks.

I just tried it on PC. Tried to import an all-in-one wp migration file with proper search/replace and it failed. going back to local. this did seem much lighter but it also seemed slower as well like it's not allocating enough resources.

Brian great tutorial. What if I want to create multiple block styles in a single plugin? Which is the best approach for loading CSS? is it possible to load a single CSS file that contains all my block styles?