I’m a WordPress developer, writer, and instructor. I’m the Technology Director at HDC. You’ll usually find me around MasterWP and the Understrap theme framework.
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.
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✏️ All the Latest Posts
Stuffed full of the feed
Is 2023 the year the “feed” finally wins the war against self-selected content?
Blog Posts vs Articles
What’s the difference between a blog post and an article?
What’s the point of Twitter?
I’m reevaluating my relationship with Twitter and with social media in general.
There’s too much code
With AI tools like Github Copilot on the rise, I have some concern about the sheer amount of code we’re dealing with in our jobs today.
🔗 MasterWP: Getting Cozy with GitHub Copilot Linked Post
Github Copilot is definitely good – but is it “good”? And how does it fare for WordPress developers?
🔗 In The Loop: Mastering Theme Development Podcast Appearance
A fantastic conversation with Cory and Phil from In The Loop all about building custom WordPress themes in the Gutenberg era.
🔗 Press the Issue: What’s Exciting about WordPress 6.1? Podcast Appearance
Got to talk about all things WordPress 6.1 / Gutenberg with my good friend Teron Bullock.
“Normal” width websites in the block editor
What is going on with max-widths and alignments in the block editor? Is there a method behind this madness?
Recreating the Quick Draft dashboard widget using the WordPress Data Layer
Thanks to this great course on Learn WordPress, I’ve recently been inspired by the potential of the WordPress Data Layer. The best way I can describe the data layer is to imagine having a complete UI framework of WordPress components- then combining that with a complete React.js/Redux JavaScript framework hand-tailored to the WordPress REST API. […]
WordPress’ Secret World of JavaScript
A recent course about the WordPress Data Layer may have changed my mind about the potential of JavaScript in WordPress.