I haven't actually used WP-env yet but it sounds promising. Anyone else using it for local WordPress development now?
https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/03/quick-and-easy-local-wordpress-development-with-wp-env/
WordPress
Most of my web development work is done through WordPress. I've built hundreds of little WordPress plugins, and dozens of scratch-made sites. At this point, I've modified nearly every corner of WordPress at some point since I started using it in 2009.
I finished up the documentation that instructs people how to install Underpin using WordPress. I frequently get asked how to set up Composer in a WordPress install, so I took some time to add details on how to do that, too. Hoping this helps people get started.
Just wrote a ton of documentation on Underpin's registry/collections API, full of tons of examples with sample code and everything. Hoping I can add to this next week sometime.
I'm finally dipping my toes into an auto-poster setup using the Share on Mastodon plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon
Fingers crossed that this works as-expected, although I'm sure I'll end up with some formatting oddities in the short-term. It'll be worth it, though!
#Fediverse #IndieWeb #Mastodon #ProjectStandifordBlog #WordPress
I’m Committing to Better Standards for Underpin
I want to make Underpin something that I can share with others better, and something that others feel comfortable with using. And that starts with taking ownership of the code, stabilizing it, and documenting it.
I had mistakenly thought that the WordPress app was replaced by Jetpack. Turns out it wasn't. It simply split from WordPress. You no longer need Jetpack to run the WordPress app on a self hosted WordPress site.
No offense to the people who surely work hard on this plugin, but it's not for me 😊.
Underpin’s String Helper Can Now Convert strings to camelCase and PascalCase
I issued a minor release for Underpin today that introduces a way to convert strings to camelCase as well as PascalCase.
Finally got around to watching the WordPress 6.2 preview, and whoa, it is looking really good.
REALLY excited about the distraction free mode.
https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/your-wordpress-6-2-preview/
Silly me. I've been manually typing the hashtags in these microposts. I even conceptualized this parser that automatically converts hashtags into WP tags and turns them into links.
I dropped this, and instead just automatically append all of the tags on this post as a hashtag on the site. So much easier.
I'm going back and finding content created by me that is published on other sites, and duplicating it on my site. I stumbled on this 3-part series I did just before I got hired at GoDaddy.
It's all about how I switched from using ACF and the classic editor to a full site block editing experience, and includes some samples of the tooling I used at the time. There's some good info in here, particularly about my process.
https://alexstandiford.com/tag/coding-optional-series
#BlockEditor #CodingOptionalSeries #WebDevelopment #WordPress