wp_head();

Notes on Wordpress theme development

Making wp-block-embed-youtube responsive

Halfway through writing my own CSS to make Wordpress’ Youtube embeds do responsive resizing, I found out that Wordpress can do it for you. You just need to put this line into functions.php:

add_theme_support( 'responsive-embeds' );

Fixed. Now when you paste a Youtube URL into the block editor (Gutenberg), Wordpress will make it look right with no further messing around needed.

(Though I do wonder: why isn’t this just done by default? The block editor brings in its own CSS to do columns and such – responsive embeds should be in there too.)

MORE POSTS

How to remove /category from your category URL in Wordpress

You don’t need a plugin to remove the word category from your URLs.

One line to include the content from one page into another page

Put any page’s content anywhere in a template file

Wordpress block editor leaves empty <p> tags at the end of pages

You can fix the unwanted gap with one line of CSS

Why are some of my Wordpress posts not showing a date?

Wordpress’ the_date() function hides the date if two posts in a row have the same date

WP_Query: show all posts except the current post

Use post__not_in to exclude your current post

So what is wp_head() anyway?

What is the wp_head() function for? What happens if you don’t use it?