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WordPress + Fediverse
Recently some things have transpired in the social media sphere that have prompted a healthy chunk of us to look for new digital “3rd places” to haunt with one another. All debates around how worthwhile spending time on social media actually is aside, the WordPress community has quickly coalesced around Matthias Pfefferle‘s ActivityPub plugin and…
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WordPress Block Styles
Block styles are currently all the rage. What are they and why should you use them? I don’t know… have a look at some of the resources below, though👇
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WordPress Utility Plugins
This post is dedicated to that niche of plugins that help augment the layer of the WordPress experience that only internal users and administrators touch — the admin area. Turbo Admin Admin Menu Editor WP Custom Admin Interface Colorlib Custom Login Page Customizer Custom Login Page Customizer Clarity – Ad Blocker I heard about Clarity…
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Modern WordPress Dev Coursework
It’s not uncommon to see folks on Twitter these days inquiring about the best continuing education on WordPress, particularly for Full Site Editing. Here’s a small collection of the best resources out there right now. TL;DR FullSiteEditing.com Carolina Nymark without a doubt was one of the first people – if not THE first person – to create…
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Why We (Should) Write
Do you ever have one of those days where the universe is trying to tell you something very specific? My work day started with my catching up on Twitter instead of actually working, per usual. Chris Weigman had just tweeted out a link to his excellent post entitled, “Write Because You Love To Write“. It’s…
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WordPress Roundup, October 2022
Ephemera Best Practices for Fonts Gap properties Logoipsum (h/t @briangardner) The Art of Doing Lucide Icon Font Be the Browser’s Mentor Not Its Micromanager Let’s Talk About Web Components Everything Developers Must Know About Figma Do you really understand CSS radial-gradients?
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The SDM Show Episode 273: Talking About Modern WordPress
Have you ever wanted to hear Tom Finley just talk about the regular WordPress stuff? Probably not — and I wouldn’t blame you – contrary to popular belief I’m actually not *that* fond of my own voice.
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WordPress Blocks + Custom & Variable Fonts
Variable fonts are by turns really fun and really difficult to wrap one’s head around when it comes to using them on the web. Variable fonts are incredibly useful when designed and optimized to be contained in a single, compact file because they give you a broad typographical palette to work from with significantly smaller…