WordPress Data: Putting it all together and registering your store!

This entry is part 11 of 15 in the series, A Practical Overview of the @wordpress/data API

To recap: so far in the series we’ve looked at the various properties of the configuration object for a store: selectors: which interface with the store for retrieving data from its state. actions: (actually action creators) which are used to dispatch action objects for handling by the reducer. reducer: which receives dispatched actions and determines […]

WordPress Data: Interfacing With the Store

This entry is part 12 of 15 in the series, A Practical Overview of the @wordpress/data API

Now that we have our new custom data store registered, we need to start integrating it with our example app. There are numerous ways in which you can interface with the data store in your components but I’m going to cover the four most common, straightforward ways. withSelect( mapToProps )( Component) withSelect is a higher […]

WordPress Data Store Properties: Selectors

This entry is part 6 of 15 in the series, A Practical Overview of the @wordpress/data API

The job of selectors is to provide an interface to access state from the registered data store. With wp.data this is the primary way that your store state is exposed and allows you to encapsulate logic surrounding exposing that data. For instance, let’s say you just want to store all products in the store state […]

WordPress Data Series Overview and Introduction

This entry is part 1 of 15 in the series, A Practical Overview of the @wordpress/data API

For the past couple of years, my involvement with the Gutenberg project in WordPress has frequently taken me into the innards of @wordpress/data.  I’ve had to use it for projects integrating with the new WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg), new interfaces and user experiences utilizing the new WordPress JavaScript packages, and I’ve also been directly involved […]

Something every Language/Library debate needs to keep in mind….

There’s some discussion happening right now in the WordPress world about what javascript framework to add to WP core.  These kind of debates happen frequently in the programming world (Google “PHP sucks” for some great examples).  In the course of these types of discussions, support is usually brought up for one point of view or another by […]

WP 3.7 drops with an interesting surprise…

I thought I was following the development of WordPress 3.7 fairly closely but something totally missed my notice and only caught my attention when a plugin I develop stopped working with the latest version of WordPress. The culprit? do_action( ‘save_post’, $post_ID, $post, $update ); Notice anything different?  The difference is that this hook used to only have […]