Writing a Modern WordPress Plugin

The challenges of learning how to create blocks, text links, and image links in a custom WordPress plugin.

If you’ve been reading along, you know how I recently updated WordPress and found that a custom plugin I wrote several years ago is now grossly out of date.

It’s broken.

When I tried to update the software I needed to revise my plugin I found that my computer, a Mac, is also grossly out of date. I shared all of the trials and tribulations I went through to get a stable development environment last time.

Here I’m going to share the same in regards to updating my custom WordPress plugin.

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Building A Stable Development Environment

Building a stable development environment on a laptop.

I shared in my previous post how I updated WordPress recently and it broke the custom plugin that I wrote several years ago. Then through updating my development setup I found that my Mac is much more out of date than I thought. I don’t want to get a new Mac because they don’t make one comparable to the one I have, so I tried a new laptop with Windows 11. But it keeps crashing. Which leaves Linux.

I like Linux. It’s open source and free to use. I tried it out once many years ago and really enjoyed it because it took me back to my college days working on Unix systems. It’s a good operating system for regular office-type stuff and surfing the Internet and it’s great for software development, especially for the web. And that’s what I need right now.

Linux runs very well on old hardware, but I’m installing it on a new HP Omen Windows 11 laptop. I’m not getting rid of Windows though. I want to make this laptop dual boot so that when I start up I can choose either Windows 11 or Linux. People do it all the time so it should be easy. Operative word being “should.”

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Welcome to the Chaos!

Embrace the chaos that comes when you make changes in life. My old computer is a source of chaos right now.

Have you ever noticed that when you decide to make big changes in your life that everything seems to fall apart? Well, this blog post is about just one area that has fallen apart. It happens that it directly affects my existing business.

Yeah, welcome to the chaos. That about covers it.

Hi, I’m Wayne. I’ve been working for myself online for several years and I decided in the last few months to revamp my online business. At first I thought I was just going to continue what I’ve been doing, just do it a lot better to generate a lot more income. It turns out that I’m going a lot bigger, and what I’m currently doing will just be a small contributing part to that.

Here’s the background. I have an online affiliate product business that I run through another website – GetMyWellness.com. The website is critical because it is how I get traffic to the products so that I make money. I use WordPress for the site because it is an easy way to create and publish content. But I used to work as a software developer, so I had to create a custom plugin to help build my pages. I wrote it several years ago just after WordPress released it’s Gutenberg block-style editor. If you work with WordPress then you are probably familiar with their block concept.

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