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On being a “community taught” developer
This is a post from a place of humbleness and gratitude. This has been my journey within development and it might be different from yours. Take what is helpful, learn, and pass on the gratitude. Web development is a wild career path, and encompasses a lot… Like, waaaaaaay too much to encapsulate even in a…
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How to Headless: Defining Ways to Decouple or Use Static WordPress
This post originally appeared on the Strattic.com blog on April 28, 2022. Over the past few years, you may have heard phrases like: What the heck is all of this lingo?! The web has come a long way over the years, and there’s plenty of vocabulary to show for it, and our WordPress corner…
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A Hike Through the WordPress Database
Have you ever wondered where the content on your WordPress lives? What about the settings of your WordPress. Or have you ever wondered how taxonomies related to posts? Or… maybe you’ve never wondered any of this… 😂 🤓
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An Ideal WordPress Workflow Development & Deployment Workflow
I know the title is a mouthful, but, this was a lot of fun to put together 🤓… This talk was for Certified Fresh Events (CFE.dev), and this was the abstract: At over 40% of the web, WordPress maintains a massive footprint on the Internet. While this platform, with its 20+ years of code, can…
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WordPress and Laravel: The Hows, Whys, and Intersections
Do you work with WordPress and wonder if there are other tools and frameworks where you could leverage your PHP or JS knowledge? Should you be using WordPress for all your projects? Do you work with Laravel and wonder why some developers still choose (and love) to work on WordPress? Come along on the journey…
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Less Snark, More Spark
How can you be the developer people want to hire, work with, and promote? Good question! Abstract: Even the most introverted, self-sufficient developer interacts with other people. Sometimes these folks are a joy to work with, sometimes not. Sometimes as a developer, you might be the difficult one to work with (we’ve all been that…
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Building and Deconstructing a Gutenberg Block
This presentation walks through the new Block Editor in WordPress, covering: what comes out of the box from WordPress Core plugins that will add blocks to your site importing demo content styling blocks with CSS creating your own blocks with Advanced Custom Fields and ES5 to ESNext.
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How to Run Your WordPress Site On Local, Gatsby and Netlify… For FREE!
Yes! This is a click-bait-y title. BUT, I wanted to see if this was possible, and it is! If you’ve ever wanted a fast and secure WordPress site, here is one way to do it. NOTE: I would NOT recommend this (probably) for a live site. Maybe there’s a slightly different way of going about…
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Hello Gatsby! This blog is now headless WordPress…
Well, I did it. I jumped on the Gatsby bandwagon, and it seems pretty great so far! Also, there’s been a very nice bump in overall site performance and experience (Chrome Lighthouse audits):
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Learning React… So I can I can hang out with other things…
Maybe it’s FOMO (fear of missing out 😮), or I’m finally starting to see the benefit, but I’m finally getting down and dirty with React, compiling everything I need to be proficient with it, and start using on the regular.