Maintaining Site Consistency
A key aspect of any high-quality website is consistently designed and structured information across every page of a site. Here’s a framework for thinking about how to get that.
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The Benefits of Following the Grain
Two very different examples of the importance of knowing the high-level reasons for why things work they way they do and the consequences of following or not following those intentions.
A list of my WordPress plugins and their statii
A list of 13 plugins I’ve built that are at least generally intended for public use.
Stuff I’ve built & contributed to recently
I’ve had a confluence of lingering projects and long-ago filed issues all coming to life!
How to send a webhook request with PHP from one WordPress site to another using WP Webhooks [Technical]
I lost an hour to this problem, so I’m blogging it to hopefully help others. I’m experimenting with the WP Webhooks plugin for helping me solve a problem with sites that I manage.1 Webhooks are a simple technology that lets a “request” to a specific URL that then completes some other action. That request contains … Continue reading “How to send a webhook request with PHP from one WordPress site to another using WP Webhooks [Technical]”
“TEC Reset” gets a shoutout on the View Source podcast!
Thanks to Aurooba and Brian from the View Source podcast for sharing a bit of work and thinking I’ve done about WordPress themes and plugins playing nicely with each other.
The Events Calendar “Reset” now on Github
I built a thing for people who build WordPress sites with The Events Calendar. It also is a great excuse to show people a technique I think can make most sites in the WordPress ecosystem more beautiful. (Not kidding.)
23NTC Field Notes (Days 1-3)
Sometimes good things take time. Sometimes life doesn’t go according to plan. So better late than never, here are my 23NTC Field Notes for all three days of the conference.
WordPress Site Editor Friction Log #2
After completing the initial layout and home page templates with the Site Editor, I moved on to dealing with some custom post types and taxonomies and putting the site styles to the test against existing content.
WordPress Site Editor First Use Friction Log
As I take my first deep dive into the new WordPress Site Editor, I’m stream-of-consciousness blogging the experience for future reference. Hopefully this will benefit others too!
Discussing my WordPress Proposal on the WP Tavern Jukebox Podcast
I was on a podcast discussing my proposal for improving how the WordPress block editor handles CSS.
22NTC Field Notes: Day 3
The final day of 22NTC was a fun grab bag! I learned and talked about WordPress and CRMs, data visualization, inclusive presentations, and ended the day listening to author Saeed Jones.
22NTC Field Notes: Day 2
Today included three really fun community conversations—the “hallway track” of this online conference—and then a lot of sessions about including stakeholders in technology projects, usability testing, and the combination of the two!
22NTC Field Notes: Day 1
Day 1 of 22NTC is in the books! I went to lots of sessions about inclusion, disability, and accessibility. And also WordPress, of course!
Standardized Design Tokens and CSS for a consistent, customizable, and interoperable WordPress future
This is a proposal to use CSS utility classes for common layout needs and access to site-specific design tokens set in theme.json so that core, theme, and plugins have access to a standardized CSS toolkit. The result is a WordPress landscape where core is easier to extend and themes and plugins are more interoperable.
Celebrating My Accomplishments in 2021!
I always tell my clients that they need to celebrate their victories. So it’s time to follow my own advice. Building off my site launches from last year, I wanted to quickly recap some of the other exciting things I did and built in 2021.