I think the mobile app is one of the most important focuses for WordPress’ future. I’ve met many young professionals who view WordPress as “really old”. Our competitors aren’t just Wix and Squarespace – it’s TikTok, X and other mobile first publishing platforms.
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Alex Standiford
REALLY stoked about the upcoming changes to the WordPress mobile app. REST API support, custom post types, and native block editing experience are much-needed upgrades to the ecosystem. Mobile is so underutilized and I think it’s one of WordPress’ biggest weaknesses.
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Feature Request: Enable Filtering by Post Format
Nick, the creator of the Block Visibility plugin asked me to submit a feature request with some information about post formats.
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How I Made My WordPress Archive Style Different Post Formats
This is a big win for me! I was able to set up my site so that posts in an archive can be displayed based on the post format – WITHOUT building a custom block, just a small PHP snippet.
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I Contributed To Discussion: Bring post formats to block themes for Gutenberg
Original I know this is a long conversation, but want to add into this that the entire reason why I’m using post formats is because it is the only way to create different types of content on a website using the mobile app. I use my entire site as a central hub, and that means […]
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Alex Standiford
I did some CSS hacking to make my archive and single tweets at least look okay. It’s definitely not what I want it to be, but it’ll do for now as a quick fix to make it at least presentable. The alternative is a custom block. I think others need this as well – maybe there’s a collaboration opportunity to build something that solves our immediate problem? Maybe Courtney, or Tom?
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I Re-Built My Website Using The Block Editor And Ollie
Reflecting on my experience in re-building my site from a headless site to a non-headless site, all in a single evening. WordPress has come so far.
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Alex Standiford
It’s frustrating that the full site editing experience ignores post formats, yet the only way to publish different types of posts (microposts vs blogposts) on the mobile app is with post formats.
We either need custom post types in the app, or better support for post formats.
