More struggling with JS: how the PHP -> JS interface is broken and why this is painful
Yesterday I was struggling with getting Vue components to do non-AJAXy things and wondering why on earth this was so difficult.
Tag: development
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I need to add social sharing buttons to a website…
Here's a thread designed to help non-web people understand how something that seems trivial on a website can lead to so many micro-decisions needing to be made.
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Where I’m at with WordPress: Gutenberg – as a business owner and developer
Gutenberg will be great for new projects going forward, but I've yet to be convinced that enabling it for all sites when they update to WordPress 5.0 is a good idea. So my plan is not to.
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(Developer) Tools talk
Last night I gave a talk at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup on the amazing toolkit called "(Developer) Tools" in your web browser. The group is very mixed in terms of technical ability so this was a great topic, and I put "Developer" in brackets because there's something in Developer Tools for all website creators, regardless of […]
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Websites without photos
Examples of websites that use no, or very few photos, simplifying design choices, and making them super fast.
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What will WordPress be?
Change is upon us! If you work with WordPress, that is. I won’t go into details on the WordPress REST API that’s going to be a part of the software soon, or of “Calypso” which is a new tool for edit content and managing WordPress sites (both wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.org) that uses an API (or […]
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Job Titles
I think that the distinction between developers and designers is actually an important one that we should keep, not throw away.
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WordPress “Quick Image” plugin – alpha
I'm building a little WordPress dashboard widget for posting quick images to your blog. Here's what it is and why I made it.
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WebDevConf 2014 – full notes
Introduction Today was my first time at WebDevConf in Bristol. I was taking notes as I went. These are currently un-edited, and will probably make more sense to me than they will to others. But there might be useful tips and links in there. I may edit/tidy up at some point. Here’s the silly intro […]
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WebDevConf 2014 – Three things
Three main things that stood out from WebDevConf 2014