WordPress plugin Solarplexus
What is Solarplexus?
Solarplexus is a plugin aimed at developers of complex, custom WordPress websites. Solarplexus gives developers a powerful tool for adding dynamic display blocks (that is, various ways of displaying content that resides in other areas of your website inside a page or post).
We created Solarplexus because, when building websites that stay close to Core (that is, websites that accept and celebrate the new WordPress Block Editor, a.k.a. Gutenberg), there was a clear need for a standardised way of bringing feed-based websites to life in this new era of WordPress too.
Solarplexus is created by Äventyret, a leading WordPress (and much more) agency in Sweden, as our way to give back to the WordPress community that has given us so much. Solarplexus is open-source software, free to use for anyone.*
* Bear in mind that Solarplexus is not the most graspable plugin around (at least not yet, which is why we call it a "developer plugin"), so you probably need a few years of experience in WordPress development to use it successfully.
Gutenberg on steroids
We think the Block Editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg) is a great idea, if not yet a great implementation. Building WordPress websites in an agency environment since 2003, we, a group of developers, were missing a central piece of the puzzle: blocks that display content from other parts of the same website.
Solarplexus is our solution to that problem. With the Solarplexus plugin a developer can create a custom set of blocks by writing just a few lines of code.
Download it today, or read our getting started guide. Try it out and join us on GitHub developing it further.
Perks with Solarplexus
Fun fact #1
Solarplexus borrows its name from the iconic Swedish jazz-rock band Solar Plexus, founded in 1969. Pioneers of the "acid jazz" genre, Solar Plexus were famous for playing a mix of folk music, prog and psychedelia. And since WordPress names all major releases after jazz legends, we, being Swedish, thought it fitting to name our contribution to the community after Sweden's leading contributors to jazz (with a folky rock'n'roll twist).
Fun fact #2
The celiac plexus, also known as the solar plexus because of its radiating nerve fibres, is a complex network of nerves (a nerve plexus) located in the abdomen, near where the celiac trunk, superior mesenteric artery and renal arteries branch off from the abdominal aorta. Or, as we would say: close to the Core.
