Tag: wordpress
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Staying at Automattic
It’s been a rollercoaster couple of weeks at Automattic. Lawsuits have been filed. Colleagues have been lost . The misalignment between Automattic and WP Engine burst into the open a few weeks ago, and has escalated from there. At the root of it, is a breaking of the reciprocity norm – the moral expectation that…
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Frankenstein themes with Gutenberg
or how I started with this and finished with this: without editing a file or writing code. Starting off I started with the Geologist Blue theme, itself a derivative of the Geologist theme, both created by colleagues at Automattic. I’m still using the same font, and the same top navigation, but the colours are different,…
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Second post on WordPress developer blog
A couple of weeks ago I had my second post published on the new beta WordPress Developer Blog! The post is about how to split and merge blocks. The useful purpose of this is to do something like inserting another list item when editing a list and hitting enter, or backspacing a list item into…
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Published on WordPress developer news
This week I had my first post published on the new beta WordPress Developer Blog! The post is about managing the state of your Gutenberg block/component or other wordpress/data based React application. Its aimed at people who have a little familiarity with React and are reading WordPress Javascript code. The post started from some notes…
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Blogging with Octopress
I’ve switched to using Octopress rather than WordPress to run my blog. I have ran wordpress since 2003, before it was forked from B2 cafelog, I’ve decided to switch as I’m currently patching security problems in my blog software more often than writing blog posts, this is probably more indicative of my blog tempo rather than anything…
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Sitemaps
Google have released yet another beta, this ones called Sitemaps, it’s basically an xml file on your website which helps google make better use of theirs and your resources when spidering your site. Danny Sullivan has a more indepth review of Sitemaps. Michael Nguyen has created some php code to generate wordpress Sitemaps dynamically. I’ve now extended this so…
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Web designing
I’ve spent the last couple of days searching a solutions for my dad. He wants a site where he can write about his birds (that’d be the feathered variety!), so I’ve reccomended him BlogJet and and WordPress to fill his remit of “it must be stupid-proof”. Since deciding on the platform, I’ve set about customising Kubrick into something he likes. Which is…
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After experimenting with drupal I decided to switch back to WordPress as I feel it is better for blog usage. However when I opened my drupal database backup it was corrupted, so I lost the last two weeks of posts, a couple of comments and a user (apologies Nick). I’m left feeling quite dumb. UPDATE: I’ve since managed to…
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Site update
I’ve upgraded wordpress the software that powers my website to the latest version – 1.5 (Strayhorn). The only differences that you should notice is that you will be required to wait till I validate your first post before it will display, once that’s validated any future posts will be instantly displayed. That and the pretty new theme you’re…
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Cheap meat
I’ve just checked my mail after a couple of days away from the computer and was greeted by over one hundred new blog comments notifications and around four hundred ‘please check this comment’ messages. All of it spam. This resulted in something like 20 times my usual page hit count and a lot of time…
Dean Sas 