At work, I’m shared a whole bunch of Google Apps / G Suite calendars that are very relevant for looking up events, but none of which I need to actually alert me. For several weeks, I was plagued with dozens of notifications that weren’t relevant to me whatsoever, and made a sea of noise that … continue reading »
I have a uses page where I detail my hardware and software setups, including this site. I’m fairly confident, one day, someone besides myself will appreciate this. For my website, I wanted to list of the plugins I used. I use them because they’re good, I like them, and having them on the share page … continue reading »
Here’s some tips for troubleshooting xdebug on VVV while using VSCode and Felix Becker’s PHP Debug extension and BrianGilbert_‘s Xdebug Helper for Firefox add-on. Ensure xdebug is turned on within vvv You may check xdebug status by taking a peak at your servers http://vvv.test/phpinfo/ page. If not on, via https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV/wiki/Code-Debugging we can toggle it on … continue reading »
This is something we know, we hear about, we’re reminded about, but we rarely do. After all, contrary to stereotype, we’re the hard working millennial who don’t know how to quit. One of the many parts of preventing chronic burn out is to properly separate work and life, with no exceptions. For me personally, I … continue reading »
I migrated from Chrome to Firefox in a support of Open Source software and because all other browsers have caught up to Chrome in terms of quality, performance, tools, and integrations. Nothing much has been different except by default you cannot tab through links on a webpage! I’m a huge proponent of using my mouse/trackpad … continue reading »
For a decade I’ve been building WordPress websites, as both a freelancer and at a digital marketing agency. In that time I had built nearly 200 custom WordPress themes and plugins for just as many sites. I had worked alone (on a small team of marketers, but never with other developers). I was self taught, … continue reading »
This is not a list of “the top 5 workflows for Alfred” this is instead tips and tricks to become a better Alfred user. It’s easy to setup Alfred and get some really cool workflows going, but it’s just as easy to forget about Alfred and it’s potential in a week or two. However, as … continue reading »
The beautiful function wp_localize_script() was built for l11n, however its found as a method for carrying over server-side values into client-side JS. Your values are now available in your .js file: Currently using this in a React theme I’m building for WordPress. This can also be done with something like:
Common practices for sticking elements weren’t working for me: position: sticky and stickybits. I didn’t want to use jQuery either, normally I’d reach to use waypoints.inview. So I wrote my own in vanilla Javascript. The nice part is it was much easier to do a sticky bottom. Scroll to element, bottom of viewport hits bottom of … continue reading »
I had a project where every single media library image URL needed to be filtered, backend and front end. As far as I’ve found these were the filters for every area: The myplugin_filter_html_image_urls() function peals out images with regex from areas where it’s not just the URL being sent. This function may require verification of … continue reading »
Passing variables into WordPress hooks using an anonymous function I thought was impossible. I always worked around this and rewrote the logic. Today I found out anonymous functions support a use keyword, allowing passing: So simple and easy. Shaves hours of troubleshooting.
tinypng-cli is an amazing tool to compress an image, or a directory of images with a single command. It’s beautiful for fixing the few images that a normal compressors miss or don’t do a good job on, or the images that slip between the cracks. A big part of my day is ensuring all my sites … continue reading »