Core developer on the ground-up rebuild of Spectra, working on its core architecture and building many of its major blocks and extensions.
Spectra is a Gutenberg block plugin with 1,000,000+ active installs. Soon after I joined Brainstorm Force, the team began rebuilding it from scratch as Spectra v3: current WordPress and Gutenberg standards, Block API v3, the Interactivity API, tighter core compatibility and AI features. The rebuild shipped several betas inside the original plugin before the team released it as a separate plugin, Spectra Blocks, and renamed the original Spectra Legacy.
I was a core developer on the rebuild from its first commits and worked on its core architecture: the plugin structure, the first blocks, the extension framework and the REST API layer. On top of that foundation I built many of its major features: the Post and Countdown blocks, the Pro Loop Builder, the Content block (co-built with the team), and extensions such as Dynamic Content, Animations, Motion Effects, Responsive Controls and Sticky Container. Along the way I moved the block set to Block API v3, wrote developer documentation, and resolved the WordPress.org review findings for Spectra Blocks.
60,000+
Spectra Blocks installs
1,000,000+
Spectra Legacy installs
1,049
My commits
15
Months on the team
Rebuild a block plugin with 1,000,000+ active installs from scratch, to today’s WordPress standards, without losing what made it popular.
Started with the foundation: the plugin structure, how blocks are registered, an extension framework that lets one feature work across every block, and the REST API layer. Then built major blocks and extensions on top of it, with documentation for the developers extending them.