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  • Setting up a Custom Palette in Gutenberg

    When using the new Gutenberg editor in WordPress, you can set a custom palette, or allow users to customize it to fit their needs.

  • Powering Up Homebrew on Mac with Alfred

    I use Alfred App and Homebrew for OSX to make finding, installing, and updating all of my applications easy!

  • Fixing Style Issues While Editing Beaver Builder

    If you write CSS that affects Beaver Builder modules, you may accidentally make changes to the page editor as well. Here’s a way to fix that.

  • Display a Notice for New WordPress Posts

    If you want to signal when an article or custom post type is less than two weeks old, this PHP function can help.

  • How to Keep Gravity Forms Displayed After Submission

    Keep your Gravity Form displayed after a user submits it, while showing the confirmation that the form successfully submit.

  • How to Display Links in Print Mode on Your Website

    How to make print styles with CSS media queries to include a URL to a link in your site content when printed.

  • 2019 Blog Focus – Sharing Tips and Resources

    My personal blogging goal for 2019, and an accountability group that I’m starting to help myself and others reach our goals

  • How I Pack for Travel to WordCamps and Conferences

    What’s in my Bag, 2018 Edition I’ve seen plenty of these types of posts, and can understand the popularity, since I end up comparing everything that I have to the people posting, trying to see where I can improve my travel or everyday carry gear.  Most recently, Matt Mullenweg did his annual “What’s in my…

  • My Ideal Note Service

    I wrote recently about using Boostnote, and why I’ve chosen that over other apps for the time being. It is not perfect though, and I’ve been thinking through all of the things that a perfect writing and reading app would have for me. There are a few things that I’d love to have, and while…

  • New Communities Can Be Overwhelming

    I’ve been paying a lot more attention to the IndieWeb space this year, with the intention of revamping my lifelogging site to both include more services that I still use (and remove the fitness tracking that I decided to stop), as well as become a repository for webmentions. I started using webmentions on this site,…

  • WordPress 15th Birthday Party!

    Tonight we hosted our WordPress 15th Anniversary party at Geek Easy. Yesterday I talked about my introduction to WordPress, but today we just hung out. For the rest of the day I worked on some IndieAuth integration setup, and some prep work for a new theme. Then I realized that I didn’t blog today, and…

  • WordPress is 15! Here’s how I found this community.

    15 years ago today, WordPress first became available. As WordPress swiftly moves towards its next iteration, with the Gutenberg editor part of core, I want to look back a bit on my time with WordPress. I had been a professional web developer for several years before I discovered WordPress. My Javascript skills weren’t (and I’d…

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