Frontend developer and co-founder of @justevolveit. Co-creator of the @advancedcolumns WordPress plugin.
Joined September 2008
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31 Oct 2023
It's been a wild ride, but we finally made it! We have planned and worked on this plugin for almost a year. We encountered many roadblocks – I mean, a lot – and we are just at the beginning. The pro version of the plugin is incredibly ambitious, and I can't wait to share more!
31 Oct 2023
The first public release of Advanced Columns is live! Advanced Columns is a layout manager #block for #WordPress that helps you build beautiful and responsive layouts with ease. You can download it for free from the link below! Let us know if you like it! advancedcolumns.com/
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Mar 18
I keep wondering: does BlockFlow need to be perfect to be useful?
#Figma and #WordPress don't speak the same language. It's not a limitation I can code around. They prioritize different things, use different paradigms, sometimes lack the same tools entirely.
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Mar 18
I can smooth some of those mismatches. Better mapping layers, smarter export logic, cleaner handling of edge cases.
But there's a floor. Some gaps are structural.
So the real question isn't "can I fix this?" It's "is a strong partial solution better than nothing?"
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Mar 16
The last few weeks were mostly about workflow: BlockFlow can now read existing #WordPress configs through theme.json import, and it also supports pattern export.🧵
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3/ Export is more flexible now too: you can export individual blocks, pull out theme.json, export patterns, templates and parts separately, or batch export multiple selections together.
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Mar 16
4/ There are still edge cases to fix and block supports to improve, but the foundation feels right now. The workflow is starting to hold together in a much more solid way.
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Feb 24
Right now BlockFlow exports themes with Google Fonts only, following WordPress's native approach to fonts.
This ensures consistency and compatibility, but inherits a design challenge: more font variants mean heavier exports.
The issue I'm dealing with right now. 🧵
ALT WordPress font library interface
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3/ #WordPress Font Library handles this the same way. It doesn't compress multi-weight families into single files — each variant is separate.
The solutions are manual:
— Subset fonts to used characters
— Use a variable font
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Feb 24
4/ For BlockFlow, I'm planning to let you upload your own font version (optimized subset, variable or custom) instead of the defaults.
More flexibility at export time, less bloat.
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Feb 19
As I build BlockFlow, the disconnect between #Figma's design system and #WordPress blocks creates challenges.
Here are the 3 technical limitations I've encountered so far. 🧵
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Feb 19
3️⃣ Responsive behavior: Both #Figma and #WordPress lack native responsive design tools.
Updates across screen sizes need custom CSS, which limits true no-code design-to-site workflows.
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Feb 19
I'm actively working on these gaps.
The goal is bridging design and code without manual intervention, making no-code workflows truly seamless.
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Feb 16
Problem: every design is different, I don't want to force a single workflow. So I've started analyzing the #WordPress Blue Note community #Figma file to understand how to adapt to common patterns. Fewer forced patterns, more real designs, so let's see where this leads.
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Feb 11
I've been experimenting with fluid typography in my BlockFlow prototype. The challenge: #Figma doesn't support fluid font sizes, but #WordPress does with clamp(). My solution: define min/max values in design tokens, let WordPress handle the rest. 🧵
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3/ When you export the theme, the plugin generates the theme.json structure that WordPress needs for fluid fonts (automatically converting them to rem). #WordPress takes care of the clamp() function automatically.
ALT WordPress theme.json export example for font sizes
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4/ It simplifies responsive design a lot. Still in prototype, but I'm excited about it.
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