Tech
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How to Use Custom Fields In WordPress
One of the best ways to store and display additional information on your site is to use WordPress’s post meta through custom fields. WordPress has the ability to allow post…
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Micro Plugins In WordPress
I have been thinking about the concept of micro plugins for a while now. A few months ago, I was having a discussion with some folks from my local WordPress…
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Using VS Code to Improve Your Git Commits
The other day I had a great discussion with a few of my coworkers about improving our Git Commits. After some back and forth, and discussing Sal Ferrarello’s rules for…
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Get Only Public Post Types In WordPress
Recently I had a situation where I needed to determine if a post type was not one of WordPress’ core types. WordPress has several base post types: Post (Post Type:…
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Transforms Can Be Used to Invert Elements
Earlier this week I was working on styling a website and trying to keep a component as customizable as possible. Within it, I needed the ability to reverse an icon…
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Using Symlinks With Local by Flywheel For Plugin Development
When developing Plugins with Local by Flywheel it’s a good idea to keep the plugin code separate from your WordPress installs. Using symlinks with Local by Flywheel helps keep the…
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Learn SCSS From The Source
When I’m trying to style something using a Mobile First approach, I tend to under-think my SCSS. I don’t know if I just get lazy sometimes or I just get…
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How To Use Local By Flywheel For Local WordPress Development
Local By Flywheel is a Graphical User Interface used for spinning up local WordPress development environments. I use it every single day for my WordPress development projects and I think…
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How To Write Your First WordPress Plugin
After you have been using WordPress for some time, I bet you have some slight modifications you want to make. Maybe changing the title of a specific archive from “Category:…
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How To Back Up Forge WordPress Sites to Amazon S3
I’ve had my personal WordPress site and all of my clients’ sites hosted with Laravel Forge for a little over a year now. If you haven’t heard of Forge yet,…