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Andrea Gandino
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Full-stack dev, Laravel & WordPress expert, typography junkie, cat person. He/him.

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Co-founder: studioevolve.it
Published: @advancedcolumns.com WordPress plugin
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advancedcolumns.com
We're out with update 1.6.1:
👉 Compatibility issues with classic themes
👉 Minor bug fixes

#WordPress #Gutenberg #plugin #BlockEditor

Download here ⬇️
advancedcolumns.com

👉 check the full changelog advancedcolumns.com/...
Create professional layouts with WordPress - Advanced Columns
Built on the CSS grid foundation, the Advanced Columns plugin is the most powerful and flexible layout builder block for professional WordPress websites.
advancedcolumns.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
jeffr0.bsky.social
Hell of a good read - make.wordpress.org/project/2025...
Five for the Future WCEU25 Chat
The future of WordPress contributions calls for redefining contribution types beyond code, addressing burnout with sustainable funding, and implementing inclusive recognition systems. Transparent f…
make.wordpress.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
advancedcolumns.com
We're out with update 1.5.0:
👉 Subgrid functionality
👉 Grid layout for the Post template block
👉 Improved frontend rendering performance
👉 and more

#WordPress #Gutenberg #plugin #BlockEditor

Download ⬇️
advancedcolumns.com

👉 full changelog
advancedcolumns.com/...
Create professional layouts with WordPress - Advanced Columns
Built on the CSS grid foundation, the Advanced Columns plugin is the most powerful and flexible layout builder block for professional WordPress websites.
advancedcolumns.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
iansvoboda.com
CSS Tip

If you want to hide an element that has no children, it's tempting to reach for :empty. However, :empty doesn't work how you'd expect if there's white space or text nodes inside the element.

Instead, use this:

.your-element:not(:has(:first-child)) {
display: none;
}
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
quadraticink.bsky.social
By far my favorite thing about bad kerning is that the Reddit dedicated to it is called r/keming
February 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
andreagandino.com
Now, imagine what would've happened if they *actually proposed a fork*.

This is all so painful to watch.
January 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
marucchi.com
I believe #WordPress can grow stronger and more inclusive, working together to maintain the #OpenSource spirit that unites us all.
marucchi.com/wordpress-le...
Breaking the Status Quo: A Vision For a New WordPress Business Roadmap
WordPress is at a crossroads: The project, the community, the trademark, and most importantly, the ecosystem we've built together. The ecosystem not only sustains us but also creates a significant eco...
marucchi.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
marucchi.com
Joost wants to "hold this community together" and I stand with him in that effort.
December 20, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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joost.blog
It's clear the #WordPress world needs a change. So I wrote a post about exactly that:

Breaking the Status Quo: A vision for a new WordPress era
Breaking the Status Quo
A vision for a new WordPress era WordPress is at a crossroads, now even more clearly then when I wrote my previous post on WordPress’s roadmap. I had very much intended to leave this topic alone for…
buff.ly
December 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
maritvandijk.bsky.social
Schrödingers documentation:
If there are docs, noone will read them.
If there are no docs, everyone will complain.
March 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
advancedcolumns.com
We're out with update 1.4.3:
👉 Fixed unintended behavior that could affect external dynamic blocks

#WordPress #Gutenberg #plugin #BlockEditor

Download here ⬇️
advancedcolumns.com
Create professional layouts with WordPress - Advanced Columns
Built on the CSS grid foundation, the Advanced Columns plugin is the most powerful and flexible layout builder block for professional WordPress websites.
advancedcolumns.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
therepository.email
WordPress Contributors and Community Leaders Call for Governance Reform in Rare Open Letter
WordPress Contributors and Community Leaders Call for Governance Reform in Rare Open Letter
A group of WordPress contributors, including long-time core committers and community leaders, has issued a rare call for changes to the governance of the open-source project. The group is urging…
www.therepository.email
December 13, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
simonemaranzana.com
5/ What’s next?

We’re bringing CSS Subgrid support to the next major update of the @advancedcolumns.com #WordPress plugin.

You’ll also get even more controls over individual item dimensions—making it easier than ever to build precise, beautiful layouts.

👇
December 12, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
advancedcolumns.com
We're out with update 1.4.2:
👉 Added support for shadows on the Columns and Column blocks

#WordPress #Gutenberg #plugin #BlockEditor

Download here ⬇️
advancedcolumns.com
Create professional layouts with WordPress - Advanced Columns
Built on the CSS grid foundation, the Advanced Columns plugin is the most powerful and flexible layout builder block for professional WordPress websites.
advancedcolumns.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
advancedcolumns.com
We're out with update 1.4.1:
👉 New preset option for Columns and Column padding

#WordPress #Gutenberg #plugin #BlockEditor

Download here ⬇️
advancedcolumns.com
Create professional layouts with WordPress - Advanced Columns
Built on the CSS grid foundation, the Advanced Columns plugin is the most powerful and flexible layout builder block for professional WordPress websites.
advancedcolumns.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:07 PM
andreagandino.com
Termsky.app is actually wild!
November 26, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
danielpost.com
Introducing Autoblue, my new WordPress plugin for Bluesky! 🦋

Autoblue will be available for download later this week, and allows you to automatically share your WordPress posts to Bluesky, and display likes and replies from Bluesky on your site.

autoblue.cc

(more in thread 🧵)
Autoblue - Easily add Bluesky to your WordPress site
Autoblue automatically shares your posts to Bluesky, saving you valuable time and effort and engaging your audience.
autoblue.cc
November 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
andreagandino.com
So I've embedded Bluesky comments on my blog. Next up (probably): automating posting on Bluesky, whenever I publish new content on the website.
Commenting via Bluesky — Andrea Gandino
How I've added comments fetched from the Bluesky API to my blog.
andreagandino.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:36 PM
andreagandino.com
Working on adding Bsky comments on my blog, fetching the discussion thread from the official API (it's text-only, so links may not work if truncated). It feels so refreshing being able to do it in a quick and effective way, leveraging Laravel caching helpers. Hope to have it online next week.
November 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
tinchox5.bsky.social
A new kid on the block github.com/zumerlab/orbit
GitHub - zumerlab/orbit: 💫 Orbit is the first CSS framework designed specifically for building radial user interfaces!
💫 Orbit is the first CSS framework designed specifically for building radial user interfaces! - zumerlab/orbit
github.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
advancedcolumns.com
We're out with update 1.4.0:
👉 New single-column layout mode implementing CSS Flex specifications
👉 New Golden Ratio grid builder
👉 check the full changelog advancedcolumns.com/...

#WordPress #Gutenberg #plugin #BlockEditor

Download here ⬇️
advancedcolumns.com
Changelog - Advanced Columns
Keep up to date with all the latest changes to the Advanced Columns plugin, the professional solution for layout management in WordPress
advancedcolumns.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
jade0x.com
My blog now has Bluesky comments (and its first blog post)!

Shoutout to @samuel.bsky.team for sharing how to do this, and to @cassidoo.co for the blog template!

blog.jade0x.com/post/adding-...
Adding Bluesky Comments to Your Astro Blog
Adding Bluesky Comments to Your Astro Blog (Using Cassidoo's Template)
blog.jade0x.com
November 13, 2024 at 3:14 PM
andreagandino.com
Posting from RayCast, just because 3rd party apps are allowed here.

It's amazing the amount of things that we used to take for granted (like having working links and previews, or having scrolling working as intended), and that were taken from us on that other platform.

It feels nice here so far!
November 13, 2024 at 4:47 PM
andreagandino.com
This is exactly the kind of features that we want to ship with Advanced Columns (advancedcolumns.com): creating things that are not possible with the existing tools, trying to simplify otherwise complex tasks. #WordPress #gutenberg
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Andrea Gandino
simonemaranzana.com
Hello 🦋 #WordPress friends! 👋
Sharing some news about the upcoming 1.4 update for the Advanced Columns plugin! There are many new features, but the biggest one is likely full responsive Flexbox support in each individual column, along with responsive attributes for third-party blocks! 👀
November 8, 2024 at 3:48 PM