Category: WordPress
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Day 7: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 7/20 Blog: Describe your journey with WordPress using only emojis or GIFs. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/14/day-7-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ 🍕🏳️🌈⌨️💾 👨💻🏡🐾 ✨👨❤️💋👨🧑🤝🧑👨❤️👨🎉✨ ✨💬☕🏳️⚧️🧸🎧✨ ✨🐕🐶🐕🦊🐰🐲✨
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Day 6: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 6/20 Blog: Pick a song that symbolizes WordPress’ 20th anniversary to you. What is it and why? (Extra credit: Post the video!) https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/13/day-6-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Automattic employee Julia Golomb created a playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music that celebrates songs from each of the jazz artists that WordPress releases are named after. I don’t use…
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Day 5: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 5/20 Blog: Tell us about the most creative use of WordPress that you have ever seen. It doesn’t have to be a website you’ve worked on, but it can be! https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/12/day-5-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ If we are talking about creative use of WordPress, and specifically of Blocks, the Museum of Block Art is a good place to…
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Day 4: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 4/20 Blog: Tell us about the oldest WordPress website you know of/worked on/built that you can find in the Wayback Machine. When is it from? What was it for? Screenshots encouraged. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/11/day-4-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Alright, I finally have to share this old site. I have avoided it in the past because quite honestly, I assumed that…
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Day 3: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 3/20 Blog: Do you have a favorite WordPress block? If so, tell us why! If not, tell us why not! (Note: It doesn’t have to be a core block) Post your response on a WordPress website and link it in the comments. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/10/day-3-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ I first wanted to go the route of choosing the humble…
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Day 2: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 2/20 Blog: Tell us about the first website you used WordPress on. What was it for? When was it built? What happened to it? Post your response on your WordPress blog and link to it in the comments. https://make.wordpress.org/marketing/2023/05/09/day-2-wp20-from-blogs-to-blocks/ Oops, it looks like I got ahead of myself with the Day 1 prompt on…
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Day 1: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
Prompt 1/20 Blog: What is your WordPress origin story? Share what you’ve already got on your WordPress.org profile, go into more detail, or share a new story. And if you’ve never fully filled out your profile or setup your dot-org account, now’s the time! Post your response on a WordPress website and link to it…
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WordCamp US 2019 Recap
My friend Allie Nimmons asked recently if anyone would read a WordCamp US 2019 recap were she to publish now, and the feedback was highly positive. So much to the point that Allie published her WordCamp US Recap that same day, and inspired me to write one myself. I am not quite as quick as…
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WordCamp Boston Recap
WordCamp Boston was easily one of the best collections of talks I’ve attended at any event over the past few years.
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Squeezing More Performance From My Site
One of the things that I handle for clients at FixUpFox is site speed optimization. I also help with performance optimization, which I almost lumped into this post, but I think that it deserves its own overview at a later date. I also began blogging more regularly on this personal site, thanks to the support…
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What is WP_DEBUG for and how do I use it?
Turning on WP_DEBUG will allow you to see PHP warnings, notices, and errors so that you can fix them in your code.
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WordCamp Atlanta 2019 – My Review
I’ve been attending WordCamp Atlanta since 2013, and it’s been one of my favorite annual WordCamp events. It is larger than WordCamp Orlando, with an average of 600 attendees to our 350, but it rarely feels large with the sensible layout of the venue and separation of spaces. Everything is in one building across two…