I wanted to make some changes to the excellent Autonomie theme, but because I’m yet a Wordpress development tyro I wanted an environment that I could break. At the same time I didn’t want to manually copy changes from local to the real remote env if those changes did turn out to work. There’s probably a better way of doing all this, but here’s what worked for me.
Chili crunch and Hades God Mode appreciation post. Also, “creative silencing” of alerts at work.
If you’re struggling to fit an operation into the REST API architecture paradigm, try adding a field to an existing model or creating a new model, such that a change to some fields in the model represents the operation.
Instead of adding the Gallery block and dropping a bunch of images onto it, open the Media Gallery, upload the images there, and then add the gallery to the Gallery block.