WC Logrono 2025 Talk Plugin

This repo contains a plugin with examples that showcase the ideas explained in the talk "¿Realmente necesitas desarrollar un bloque nuevo? Veamos algunas alternativas" at WordCamp Logroño (Spain) 2025

This plugin demonstrates various ways to extend WordPress core blocks without creating full custom blocks, focusing on Block Bindings and the Interactivity API.

These examples are inspired on the ideas shared on Developer Hours - Alternatives to Custom Blocks.

Features

This plugin demonstrates:

• Block Variations: Two variations for the core/quote block:
  • Quote API Editor: Allows fetching a random quote from an API (optionally filtered by author) directly within the block editor.
  • API Quote Frontend: Uses Block Bindings to connect the core/quote block's inner paragraph to a custom source, displaying a random quote (optionally filtered by tags) on the frontend.
• Custom Block Style: Registers a "Hand Drawn" block style for core/image and core/quote blocks via PHP.
• Block Bindings: Shows how to register a custom block binding source (qa/random-quote-tags) and use it to dynamically render content.

(Note: Original demo GIFs might be outdated or need regeneration based on plugin functionality)

Development

1. Set up a local WordPress development environment.
2. Clone / download this repository into your wp-content/plugins folder.
3. Navigate to the wp-content/plugins/wc-logrono-2025-talk folder in the command line.
4. Run npm install to install the plugin's dependencies (for the JavaScript build process) into a /node_modules/ folder.
5. Run npm run build to compile the JavaScript assets into the build/ folder.
6. Run npm run start to compile and watch source files for changes while developing.
7. Login to your local WordPress development environment, navigate from Dashboard > Plugins and activate "WC Logrono 2025 Talk".

Refer to package.json for script details.