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Creating a portable Slider Block with ACF
Update 14th June 2023: As part of my demo of ACF Blocks at WordCamp Europe, this code was updated and modernised further and is available on GitHub: https://github.com/lgladdy/wceu-acf-block-demo ACF’s upcoming 6.0 release brings support for block.json blocks, which means it’s now possible to build standalone, reusable ACF Blocks which contain all the fields, scripts, styles…
Creating portable ACF Blocks
For the last couple of months in my day job, I’ve been working some significant changes to Advanced Custom Fields block editor integration system, ACF Blocks. ACF Blocks was first introduced to support WordPress 5.0’s initial implementation of the block editor back in ACF PRO 5.8, and as you can imagine that looked and worked…
How to watch (and where to find) the World Cup in 4k UHD on BBC iPlayer in the UK
The BBC is running the UK’s first live 4K UHD HDR broadcast trial for the Russian 2018 World Cup. It’s broadcast via the BBC iPlayer app directly on compatible smart TVs, The BBC do have a list of compatible TVs, but this isn’t a complete list. Due to constraints in live encoding of UHD material,…
Sky Q Formula One UHD Failed Recordings
This morning was the first live qualifying of Formula One available in Ultra HD on Sky Q, and it’s looking like it’s caused issues for lots of people. There are reports on Twitter and Sky’s forums of numerous issues – “Part Recorded” or “Failed” for Qualifying this morning. Other people report green screens, artefacts and blocky…
Sky Q Missing Thumbnails
22nd March Edit: Version 4 of the EPG rolled out today to all users. This changes the way the data is loaded from UDP to TCP, and should fix this bug. There’s a common ‘bug’ with Sky Q that results in people seeing empty blue squares where the thumbnails should be. I’ve tried to help…