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WordPress – responsive tables with headers in Gutenberg editor

WordPress – responsive tables with headers in Gutenberg editor

I like the new visual editor Gutenberg in WordPress, but some of its limitations are really annoying. One of the biggest – inability to set a header in a table. The other problem is that the generated tables are not responsive, i.e. in a phone they will either be extremely squeezed or scrolled horizontally, neither being usable. A common solution is to convert the table into a list. I’ll present several plugins and workarounds for tables.

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Customizing WordPress – adding breadcrumb

Customizing WordPress – adding breadcrumb

Add a breadcrumb trail to a WordPress site? Sounds like it was a matter of switching one option. Not in WordPress!

What I realized, adding a breadcrumb required four actions:

  1. Install a breadcrumb plugin.
  2. Create a child theme if you use a stock theme.
  3. Edit theme file to display the breadcrumb in a correct position.
  4. Edit theme file to style the theme.

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WordPress for developers – my set of plugins

WordPress for developers – my set of plugins

I have chosen WordPress as a platform for blogging due to its popularity. I’m not sure if it is the best choice for a developers’ blog as searching for a theme, fine-tuning it, searching for plugins, configuring them, bothering with limitations of visual editor (Gutenberg) – these all tasks took a lot of time and frustration. And in future, backup (application, plugins, database) will be more troublesome and I will probably have to deal with performance issues.

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