Today I edited wp-format-enabler to restore core/post-title to the Query Loop output. This gives me full control over how post titles display — clean and clickable. Previously, the plugin would remove the post titles if it was any format beside ‘standard’, and use the post format as the title of the post in the Blog page, and single post display.

Style updates (via Site Editor):

• Set site background to black
• Forced heading and heading link colors using primary and tertiary preset colors from my Styles (Site Editor)
• Removed grayscale/duotone filters that interfered with title clarity

Workflow enhancements:

• Installed Subversion (svn) and checked out the plugin-check tool locally using:

svn checkout https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/plugin-check/ ~/WPDev/wp-plugin-check

This allows me to create a symlink to this plugin in any of my project’s wp-content/plugins/ folder so it stays up-to-date via svn update.

• Coding kit setup for WordPress projects:

I built a reusable reference folder for Cursor with all the key WordPress handbooks. (I got them from this Github repo.)

├── .cursor/
│   └── config.json   ← project rule (points to handbook md files)
├── wp-handbooks/
│   ├── wp-plugin-handbook.md
│   ├── wp-theme-handbook.md
│   ├── wp-rest-api-handbook.md
│   ├── wp-blocks-handbook.md
│   ├── wp-wpcs-handbook.md
│   └── ...etc

Whenever I start a new project, I can symlink this folder into the root. Cursor can use it to surface contextual handbook guidance, and I don’t have to copy the docs over each time, for referencing best practice.

This is the config.json file, in case you might want to try something similar. ChatGPT helped me put it together:

{
  "projectRules": [
    {
      "name": "WordPress Project Standards",
      "appliesTo": ["*.php", "*.js", "*.json", "*.md"],
      "description": "Apply WordPress development standards. Reference Markdown guides under ./wp-handbooks/ for best practices on plugins, themes, REST API, blocks, admin UI, and coding standards.",
      "rules": [
        "Use WP Coding Standards for PHP, JavaScript, and CSS.",
        "Consult wp-plugin-handbook.md for plugin structure and APIs.",
        "Follow wp-theme-handbook.md for themes.",
        "Use wp-rest-api-handbook.md when building or consuming APIs.",
        "Use wp-blocks-handbook.md for Gutenberg development.",
        "Refer to wp-adv-admin-handbook.md for admin interface patterns.",
        "Apply wp-wpcs-handbook.md for linting and formatting.",
        "Structure code according to the official WordPress handbook conventions."
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Feature image courtesy, ChatGPT, me (Photoshop) and Danny Meneses (Pexels).