Anton Plauche

I’m excited to announce my latest WordPress hobby project that has morphed into an essential part of my site building practice: Block Editor Extension Toolkit (Beet). I’m a huge fan of leveraging WordPress core as much as possible, so I try to avoid creating custom blocks if a core block can do the job. That […]

This past fall I had the opportunity to work on designing and prototyping a physical product to experiment with multimodal experience design as part of the MSHFID program at Bentley University. The concept borrows from “rubber duck” debugging, for a desk assistant that leans into the trend for purpose-built offline products. Without needing any bluetooth, […]

This experimental WordPress block came from two sources of inspiration. First, at WordCamp U.S. I attended the talk by Stephanie Stelzer about Disney’s creative approach to modular yet unique sites and how they inject play into each. Second, Jack McDade’s “Radical Design” course. I’ve been a fan of both him personally and Statamic (his flat-file, […]