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More Secure API Requests with WordPress Helper Functions
Making API requests with JavaScript is something web developers do everyday. API services often require you to keep API keys out of the browser or route your requests through a server to secure the request.
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Customizing WordPress
Everyone wants a unique web presence. WordPress makes this easy by allowing us to customize our website to our heart’s content.
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A New Talks Page
Recently, I’ve started volunteering to give more talks to local user groups and conferences. Normally, I have some kind of slide deck to go along with those as a resource. To keep all of these in one place, I’ve created a Talks page as a kind of repo for the talks I’ve given or talks in…
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Auto-Send Slack Invites
Update: This may not work anymore, or may not work for new users of this app. I know we’ve hit out sending limit on our free account for a local meetup, so test and proceed with caution. Recently, we wanted to create a Slack group for a meetup group in our city. We also wanted…
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Talk: Getting Started with WP-CLI
Do you work with or maintain WordPress sites and wonder if there’s an easier way to keep things updated? Are you looking for a way to automate a site setup, turning a five minute install into a 5 second install? (Well, at least less than 5 minutes) Are you bogged down by repetitive tasks that…
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2018: The Year of Going Deeper and Wider
A quick bulleted list… This year, I’m working on the following: Deeper Gutenberg and React Vue and the RESTAPI For fun: calypso fork? WP-CLI stuffs? Beans something?? Wider Laravel NodeApp For fun: Raspberry Pi and a bot Health Really get this dialed in for the rest of my life. Get weight down into the 230s…
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How I Wrote My First Bash Script to Implement WP-CLI on Managed Sites
They say if you want to learn something, teach. Or scratch your own itch. Or just do it. In any case, I had an itch that I have been wanting to find a fix for for a while. If you are a developer like me, you began figuring this “WordPress thing” out through tutorials, trial…
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Tips for Small Business Owners Getting Started with WordPress
A couple months ago, I was asked to contribute to an article for business owners on getting started with WordPress. The article was just published and I made slot #4 (I don’t think there’s anything special about that, btw ). There was some great advice in the article, especially #1: Don’t be afraid to get…
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My First Open Source Code Contribution
A lot of developers have stickers on their computers. Sometimes the stickers are like pieces of flare. Sometimes, they’re like merit badges. Still, other times the stickers are like a signal flare. Whatever the case, I geek out about them a bit. I see the stickers somewhere in between a merit badge, a piece of…
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July Checkin, Goals Update
I’m big on setting goals and areas of focus for the short term. My general goals and mantra for 2017 are summed up in the post Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger… I usually like to see where I’m at halfway through the year and adjust accordingly to either get back on track or set some different goals.…