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WordPress Twitter and Litter Box Misinformation
What do litter boxes, advice blogs, and conspiracy theories have in common? They’re the topic of my main post this week. Warning: it’s a fairly personal one. As I think about the future of the internet, I’m genuinely concerned about our (read: my) inability to create deeper meaning at scale or to even be able…
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Email Newsletters and An Ode to RSS
RSS was maybe the first “great” syndication method for writing online. It’s easy and open. Almost every blog or content-heavy website supports it. I see a writer I like and I can just add their URL to my RSS feed reader. Email newsletters are also great- they use a pretty open protocol. You still have…
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Github Copilot and the WordPress Gold Rush?
I don’t know about you, but I’m a chronic New Year’s over-planner. I love the chance to set myself some goals that I’ll grow to hate and eventually ignore. This year, I’m trying very hard to boost my personal writing/blogging habit (along with the usual “more exercise, less food and twitter”). That means I’m coming…
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Mastering Theme Development with In The Loop
Happy Friday! Are you like me: a WordPress custom theme developer who has no idea how to handle the block editor? Then boy do I have the podcast episode for you! I promise that it will not answer any questions you might have, but it sure asks them out loud ! Truth is, WordPress is…
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Of Mastodon and the WordPress site editor
Happy Friday! Last week I spent some time digging into the block editor and trying to understand the #!&@#ing logic behind alignments and widths. I started by venting on Twitter but ended up writing a post about what I’ve learned. If you’re coming from the Bootstrap/Tailwind mindset for widths/containers, I recommend giving it a read: “Normal” width websites…
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Fancy WordPress Javascript and Fun with Full Site Editing
Happy Saturday! It’s been a while since I wrote anything here, but I have been busy digging into all things WordPress. Last month I appeared on the WP Builds podcast talking about the WP Feature Notifications project– an attempt to clean up your admin notices and alerts once and for all. It’s my first attempt at contributing to…
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WordPress 5.9, Full Site Editing, Spotify, and More
WordPress 5.9 and full site editing was a major focus of last week, and you’ll see that in some of the articles below. I also spent a lot of time supporting the acquisition and relaunch of MasterWP , the newsletter for WordPress Pros. I definitely recommend adding MasterWP to your WP newsletter feed as well, as we…