Starting today, would I develop for Shopify or WordPress?
Should new developers jump on the Shopify bandwagon or join the WordPress community? Here’s what I’d do if I started fresh.
Linked Post Advanced Custom Fields Acquisition Review – Eight Months In
Advanced Custom Fields always felt like the plugin that belonged in core. So how has ACF fared in the eight months since the acquisition?
Linked Post WordPress is trying to tell you something: WP Notify and Dashboard spam
How do we balance the increase in WordPress dashboard spam with developers who need to pay their bills?
On Lord of the Rings and Culture
As a long-time Lord of the Rings fan, I know what it’s like to have ALL the feelings before a major adaptation of Tolkien’s work is released.
VSCode Snippet for using jQuery in WordPress
These days I’m trying to use vanilla JS as much as possible, but more often than not, I find myself writing jQuery when in WordPress.
Linked Post What’s on deck for WordPress 6.0
WordPress 6.0 will be the release that really completes the Site Editor.
Linked Post MasterWP: WordPress 5.9 and Full Site Editing
Can agencies take advantage of full site editing, or is it really just an appeal to the DIY, no-code crowd?
Why I don’t build websites for equity or ownership
If you’ve been building websites long enough, you will no doubt get the inevitable pitch to build a website for someone’s new business idea. For free.
Testing Full Site Editing and Twenty Twenty Two
This week I updated this site’s theme to Twenty Twenty Two and attempted to take advantage of FSE (Full Site Editing) in WordPress 5.9 to design everything you see here.
Neil, Joe, and Daniel – Thoughts on the Spotify Podcast Ecosystem
The wild west days are coming to an end and podcasts in Spotify are going to function a lot more like Facebook than the open web.
