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I’m JuanMa, a Developer Relations Advocate at Automattic.
In this blog, I'll be sharing my insights and learnings in development, with a particular focus on WordPress development.
I write in both Spanish and English
Did you know you can extend core blocks to add interactivity in the Frontend while keeping a great edition experience? For example, you can create a “Word Switcher” effect in…
The Command Palette was introduced in WordPress 6.3, along with an API that allows developers to extend its capabilities with additional commands. This type of functionality is common in many…
I use WordPress Studio for almost all my WordPress development. It gives me clean, disposable environments with a predictable folder structure — ideal for a fast, modern workflow. One simple…
I built Abilities Dashboard, a Dashboard that displays the Abilities registered using the JavaScript Abilities API and powered by DataViews and DataForm.
If you’re building a React, Next.js, or Vue frontend that talks to WordPress as a backend, you’ve probably seen this before: That’s not WordPress being picky — it’s your browser…
A few days ago I started developing my own JWT authentication plugin for WordPress sites using my own approach and criteria for client-side workflows. The result has been jwt-auth-pro-wp-rest-api —…
For years, CodeRabbit has been a trusted tool for AI-assisted code review on GitHub. By integrating with your repository, it reviews Pull Requests (PRs), flags issues, and helps teams maintain…
If you’ve ever run composer install or composer update only to be greeted by: or had Composer suddenly stop and ask you for a GitHub OAuth token, you’re bumping into…
Automattic recently introduced Telex, an experimental tool that blends AI with the WordPress editor to unlock new ways of building. If you haven’t seen it yet, Telex is all about…
When I was debugging WordPress integration tests with Xdebug, I ran into something that really confused me. I used the WordPress test factory to create an administrator user: I paused…
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