Moving to Linux
I recently moved to Linux on my desktop, after many years of being Windows-by-default. I was never fervently for or against Windows, but eventually the advantages for web development of working on the...
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How Buildings Learn
Soon after I moved to London in 1999 to work in the web industry, my friend Jim urged me to read this book, How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand. Brand’s an interesting character. After some time in...
View ArticleHide recurring events in admin for The Events Calendar
I’m just getting going with Modern Tribe’s The Events Calendar plugin, and so far it’s very impressive. As with any plugin, however good, it’s got its idiosyncracies and annoyances. I’ve just been...
View ArticleWhen a post is first published, but not when it’s re-published
I’ve just been looking into some WordPress code that needs to run only when a post is first published. WordPress provides a number of hooks for post status transitions. You’d think the one to use would...
View ArticleCustom post types, authors, and custom roles
When you create a custom post type in WordPress, you can set it to ‘support’ a number of things: a featured image, trackbacks, revisions… and author. You might want to use it in the way author is used...
View ArticleWordPress plugin to help repair serialized arrays in custom fields
I just launched a project, and despite using a heavily tried-and-tested script for dealing with serialized data in migrating, we ended up with some custom field values that weren’t being output (in...
View ArticleYoda conditions
Because I usually work with WordPress, and because coding standards are a good way of avoiding endless personal decisions that then get in the way of collaborating, I tend to follow the WordPress...
View ArticleWorking with the Bureau
I’m very pleased to be starting work with The Bureau, a small east London digital & design agency specialising in the arts, education and non-profit sectors, and interesting companies. I’ve worked...
View ArticleHow to restrict a WordPress page template to one page
WordPress page templates (now applicable to any post type) are designed to be re-used for any number of pages. However, sometimes I want there to be a template that only gets used once. It is possible...
View ArticleUpdate on my plugins
I’ve been very busy with my work at The Bureau, and my plugins have been a little neglected of late. I knew the release of WordPress 5 — with Gutenberg — would necessitate a bit of updating. In the...
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