Pillar deep dives
Single-page deep dives on one topic each — reference, explanation and practical patterns combined. Built to be the one URL you bookmark instead of reading ten blog posts.
Different from Tutorials (step-by-step learning) and Series (multi-chapter courses). Guides are what you reach for when you need depth in one sitting.
Endpoints, schemas, authentication patterns, custom routes, Application Passwords, and the patterns that hold up at scale. Companion piece to the Abilities API guide.
Every extension point on the Gutenberg editor — Slot/Fill, block filters, store subscriptions, and the editor primitives most plugin authors never touch.
WordPress' new directives-based front-end runtime. State management, server-side hydration, store namespaces, and the patterns that replace block.js for interactive blocks.
The 12 patterns that hold up under real load — KV vs D1 vs DO, request coalescing, the cache API, R2 streaming, and the architecture decisions you only learn after the bill arrives.
How JSON Schema underpins the REST API, the Abilities API, the block.json contract, and almost every typed surface in modern WordPress — with the gotchas that bite first-timers.
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