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.

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Alex Standiford

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 😊.

Jim Carey in the movie Liar Liar mimicking a typing motion, and saying "tick tick, Deleted!"

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Alex Standiford

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.

#Microblogging #ProjectStandifordBlog #WordPress

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Alex Standiford

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