Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

Now that the holidays are over, it's time to build new things.
If we want to develop our visual creativity, and create a new Theme for WordPress, there are a few tasks that one has to do on every theme.
There's adding functions.php, customized header and footer files,
perhaps supporting rtl languages (with CSS tweaks), adding SASS support, etc.
Luckily there's a service to help you out with that!

This week I've released a new plugin for WordPress called SlideNSwap Gallery.

In a custom plugin I made, I had to add a custom media upload button in order to make sure only a single Video file is can be selected.
After doing some research, I discovered the handy & pretty undocumented component: wp.media

Just to make sure we’re on the same page, this is a JavaScript component which is a part of WordPress, used to handle Media upload (when writing a post).
If you're not sure how to add fields/buttons within post editing, take a look at the add_meta_boxes action, just so you can understand the context.
 
Let’s start with a simple upload button:

How long does it take you to install a new WordPress website?
Do you have a collection of plugins you constantly use for every WordPress website you install? Does the same go for themes?
What about some dummy data? Do you have to add some posts and pages every time?

For every developer building websites for small to medium sized businesses, there’s the classic dilemma of hosting: