Here I share my latest writing, tech videos, podcast appearances, and scribbled-down thoughts on everything from WordPress and tech to just regular life stuff.
I also co-host a weekly WordPress development show/podcast called viewSource. You can find my writing on industry publications like MasterWP and The WP Minute and even WordPress.org.
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Links from the WordPress ecosystem- along with my latest blog posts- sent to your inbox. (Read recent editions here.)
🎙️ Podcast
A weekly conversation around tech, web development, and WordPress with me and cohost Aurooba Ahmed.
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📺 Videos
WordPress video tutorials around advanced development topics like custom blocks and Gutenberg.
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✏️ All the Latest Everything
Getting WordPress Media Library images in JavaScript
A tiny JavaScript replacement for wp_get_attachment_image.
🔗 In the Loop: Learning Out Loud
Aurooba and I talk to Cory and Phil about our podcast, viewSource— and we talk about why we started it, who it’s for, and why all of us keep putting ourselves out there, learning WordPress in public.
Styling the separator block in five attempts
Exploring different ways to change the default color of the Separator block in WordPress, including using regular CSS, scoped CSS, theme.json, and block-specific stylesheets.
🔗 Press the Issue: Openverse, Block Styling and WordPress 6.2
In this episode, Rob and Brian review the biggest new features of WordPress 6.2, the integration of the Openverse image library into WordPress Core, discuss whether “Full Site Editing” is really ready to move out of Beta, and whether the Openverse is proof that web privacy regulations have become a hindrance rather than a help…
Embracing theme.json, kicking and screaming
Theme.json is great for blocks, but what about themes and plugins that use good ol’ HTML?
🔗 Torque Social Hour with Doc Pop
Chatted with Doc Pop about viewSource, using GitHub Copilot, and what we think the world of AI might do to SEO and web development.
What makes a good design-to-dev handoff?
Three reasons I had a really great design-to-dev handoff last week for a new website build.