Thanks for the support. Your comment is literally why I do what I do; I'm so glad the videos have been helpful!

Thanks so much! Glad the courses are helpful. I prefer Vite too! A couple weeks ago I was trying to integrate Vite with WordPress, but I needed to learn how to alias imports, so that when a public front-end block imports 'react' it actually just uses "window.wp-element" - I think if I spend a bit more time optimizing that I'd probably start recommending a Vite boilerplate for WP.

Flexible Content fields are amazing! I used them on several client projects a few years ago. It's literally my vision for how WP should be. The reason I don't officially cover them in videos is because they're not included in the free version of ACF. I think the current direction of WordPress is great for people creating their own sites, but I think it would be cool if developers who use WP as a CMS for their client projects forked WP and called it something like CMSPress and implemented something very similar to Flexible Content Fields into the core of the project. CraftCMS is pretty ideal (its Matrix field is similar to ACF Flexible Content) but it's not free.

About a month ago I finally got around to reading the official blog post about it (make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/30/proposal-the-interactivity-api-a-better-developer-experience-in-building-interactive-blocks/). I think it will solve at least 90% of what I'm trying to fix with my boilerplate theme. From what I read in that blog post it's still early days, and I'm not counting on it being out of the experimental "tons of things are still changing rapidly and not solid ground feeling" phase for quite a while still. But I'm super excited for it; it's what I feel has been missing since blocks were first introduced years and yeas ago. To me, for the last 5 years it's felt like blocks weren't ready for production yet because there is just this giant unbridgeable gap between the admin editor experience and how developers want to output things (in a dynamic way) on the actual front-end. It's felt like we need a custom VPS host where we can install the Node V8 engine module in PHP and get super creative with some wacky configuration so that we can bridge the gap between JSX and PHP SSR. I'm super excited because the Interactivity API will solve all of this. I'm just not sure when it will be "ready" and solid ground.

Good question. The nice thing about our setup using the official @wordpress/scripts package, is that they've already configured their webpack so that it aliases the import of "react" to instead pull in the official WordPress enqueued copy of React. Your front-end will only load the WP copy of React if your block/plugin lists "wp-element" as a dependency. It works nicely, and is why in our build folder, the "quiz-frontend.js" file is only 10kb, it's not actually importing/bundling React.

Hi! I'm working on a confidence building course right now! I'm hoping to launch it later this year.

Good question. Check out the source code link here; I do use either an h1, h2, or h3 depending on the small/medium/large choice. If you wanted you could also use h1, h2, h3 instead of small, medium, large for the labels that users click on. github.com/LearnWebCode/brads-boilerplate-wordpress/blob/main/brads-fse-hybrid-theme/src/genericheading/index.js

one more question, you can make a FSE hybrid Developer course so we can buy and study recent changes what we can implement to our working routine!

Good question; it includes React but not Tailwind. But in that same GitHub repo there are theme and plugin examples that do have Tailwind implemented. This theme uses the same "@wordpress/scripts" package as the bundle tool, so you should be able to borrow the Tailwind example code from one of those.

Oooooh, that's a good idea!

I think you're misinterpreting this video. A lot of people used WordPress as a CMS for their clients. It's difficult to be the developer "responsible" for a large highly branded & stylized site with hundreds or thousands of pages/posts/CPTs if every page is a static custom design put together by a client with zero separation between content and style / layout. It's not scalable / maintainable / uniform. Obviously, for small projects where people create their own sites the new direction of WordPress is amazing. My course teaches developers how to use React to create custom block type plugins for people. I felt like the first 2 minutes of this video made it clear I was referring to developers who use WordPress as the CMS tool for their clients.

@@LearnWebCode Exactly! Small-business freelance devs might be endangered by FSE (and more by AI builder tools now built into many web hosting setups) but that's a separate issue. Allowing clients to edit their sites with all the FSE controls, patterns, templates and style settings, not only will cause the scalability issues you mention but they WILL screw up their sites. As someone who maintains a theme for private clients, with dozens of custom components, still in PHP and ACF, I've struggled with deciding how to rebuild the whole thing for the future. I've got some learning to do, but luckily I signed up for your course years ago and this hybrid theme is exactly the approach I'm looking for.

​@@LearnWebCode wp recently added patterns and global styles also we can do all the styling using theme.json and can also restrict what editor features will be visible to normal users

I agree with that sentiment 100% if we're talking about end-users creating their own sites or developers creating their own sites, but I think I'm describing a different use-case entirely. The way I and many others have always used WordPress is more like CraftCMS. A content authoring interface would replace WordPress in this case not Angular. I'm not the ones creating the pages, posts, and content on the site; my non-dev client site-owners are. However, they pay me to create (code) a site that looks pixel perfect to their brand guidelines and need custom post types and meta relationships and custom searches / filters / JS interactivity etc... and you're never going to get that level of uniformity and customizability without a dev micro-managing and keeping the content-inputters on somewhat of an "on rails" experience. They just input paragraphs, h1-h6 and add my own custom blocks to create relationships / uniform features etc... Having said that; the new WP approach is amazing for simple sites that don't have custom post types or relationships or need pixel perfect uniformity across hundreds or thousands of URLs. Maybe that was never WordPress's intended use from the beginning; but tons and tons and tons of devs and agencies have used it that way over the years.

Good to see you here Joseph. I definitely need to start using the short echo tag. It could clean up our themes and plugins a good bit.

Maybe arrays too ? [ ] vs array()

I unfortunately agree. Since posting this I've changed my mind a bit. Until the upcoming official WP Interactivity API launches into WP core... I think I'll draw a line in the sand. If a client is paying a dev to create their site, use a traditional theme + ACF and disable 95% of blocks. On the other hand, if a client just wants help getting a WP site up and they aren't paying for any bespoke dev / design work, and they want to use "page builder tools" themselves, then and only then, use a block theme + FSE. I do hope that in the future when the interactivity API launches we can bridge the gap and use block themes + FSE in more scenarios.

No worries; a dialogue is great. I've been meaning to learn more about Synced Patterns; maybe I misunderstood them, but yes it would allow you to have a shared single instance of a block that's used on 500 pages and you can update it in one place. But what if you have 500 pages and each one uses a certain block/pattern but has its own unique values / data? Like 500 different instances of the same block/component. If you "detach" a synced pattern and then later want to update the HTML for all 500 different "instances" is that feasible / possible?

And I love people who can make a point in a nice/polite way... You don't need to say "bullshit" to be heard... Be better than that!

@farazk9729 You're right and YES - I'm sorry to @LearnWebCode. BUT at the same time I think he understands that people like me + SM is full of people with different language than EN. It just means that we are good in code and reading doc, but sometimes have a problem with expression - it's not our native lang. Sorry. In Polish language I could express the same in about 1500 words, so it was a shortcut. I hope @LearnWebCode knows it, as His smart person and that's the reason I subscribe - not because He's nice or tell me to click the bell. All the best to you two gentlemen, From Poland with love, - Paul

@@PaweBystrzan Hi Paul, Thanks for your beautiful honest reply; it's nice when people are nice online, and yes, I didn't take the language thing into account.. sorry! But I think Brad probably did. You're right; there's so much misunderstanding because of that. Anyways, Poland.. beautiful country. As a matter of fact, I think it was a couple of days ago I heard about the recent elections in Poland. Wishing you and your country all the best. Thanks again, From Sydney with love, haha :-D, Faraz

@@farazk9729 I wish myself and all the world peace and love. And YES. Sometimes we're making mistakes and it's totally worth what we both did: 1. say it wan not nice from You 2. Say honest sorry from me. Hope the Love will wins always. Best, Paul