• Eeek! What does Gutenberg Phase 3 mean for Turbo Admin

    Turbo Admin features to be in WordPress core! 🙌 The WordPress Gutenberg Phase 3 announcement is very interesting for me. Why? Because it will be disruptive for my Turbo Admin plugin/browser extension. An admin redesign is in the works which, especially if done in React, may make Turbo Admin impossible to run. Fortunately they are also considering […]

  • The New Turbo Admin

    Turbo Admin 1.12.0 is a big release with better search, improved reliability, user and plugins search and integrations for WooCommerce and Gravity Forms. Phew!

  • On strikes and taxes

    Nurses, postal workers, train drivers, border force, paramedics: you have my support.

  • WordlePress – a silly (and very difficult) game for WordPress developers

    Announcing (or re-announcing) WordlePress: a silly function-name guessing game for WordPress developers (and anyone else stupid enough to try). This post serves as the help page/instructions for WordlePress until I get some proper help up on the actual WordlePress site. Earlier this year, the daily Wordle puzzle was all the rage. And early on I […]

  • Minimalism, shortcuts, and not getting distracted

    Today I’m tidying up an old draft post on the topic of minimalism for posting. I don’t really think of myself as minimalist. I’m not a clean desk person. Our home is big on “floordrobes”. We are slightly-chaotic, creative, mad-professor types. (Well, I should only speak for myself but…) Yet I have a feeling if […]

  • WordlePress and nerding out about WordPress function names

    Given all the “Wordle” hype these days, I think I was one of the first (of many) people to wonder about what “WordlePress” might look like: Not long after, Taco Verdo did buy the domain, with the aim of preserving it for the good of the WordPress community. Then, one bored weekend, I came up […]

  • Hang on, PHP IS a static site generator!

    Regular followers will have heard me talk about Turbo Admin. And you may also know that I am, where possible, trying to #DitchTheBuild and use vanilla HTML, CSS and JS as much as possible. So for the Turbo Admin website I kinda wanted to embrace this philosophy, get cheap-and-easy, static-file hosting, and make my build […]