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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.…
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How to Use a Filter on TinyMCE to Add Buttons
Recently, I was asked to add a button to the visual editor for posts and pages on a WordPress install that would insert the <!–nextpage–> code for article pagination . I had done this before, but wanted to write about it here, since I’d totally forgotten how to do it, and wanted to make sure I had a…
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How to Pass Information from One Page to Another with Forms and JavaScript/jQuery
This is a quick post, just to share something I learned. Recently I got a request to create a simple submit form with a an email input that would direct to another page and take the email address and pre-fill a more complex form with email, name, address, etc. Below is the code I used…
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Getting Post Meta for the WP REST API
My friend and I are working on a little side project. It’s a job posting site for an industry we’re familiar with: ESL jobs around the world. While this project could be seen as “just another job board”, we’re hoping to add some features that will make it fun to use and valuable for schools and recruiters.…
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2017: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Before (or while) reading the below, make you sure you give this a listen: Let’s get down to brass tacks…
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Looking Backwards: 2016 in Review
It’s that time of the year, reviewing what has been done, assessing what was good, discarding what was not, and moving forward in a better situation than I was before. After my theme and goal setting at the end of 2015, I moved into the new year with hope and optimism. This year was very interesting…
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How to Make jQuery’s Dialog Popup Responsive with JavaScript
Lately, I’ve done a few things with the jQuery UI Dialog: In a plugin for making posts and drafts On a site for registration and logging in For playing around with:-) However, out of the box, the popup is not responsive. Since the height and width of the dialog modal are set in JavaScript, I wanted…