• Alex Standiford

    So, next Friday is a pretty neat day. It’s the first official WP Dev Academy online event! Premium members can join voice channel on our Discord server next Friday at 2:00PM EST.

    Bring anything you’d like to discuss.

    wpdev.academy/membership/pre…

  • Alex Standiford

    When you’re planning an event with a global attendance, what is the appropriate time zone to communicate? UTC seems both right and very wrong.

  • Alex Standiford

    So as you know by now, we’re composting…well…everything.

    With that, I’m REALLY happy to see our local grocery store sells this.

  • Alex Standiford

    If Texas is a Ford F-150, New Mexico is a Toyota Tacoma.

  • Alex Standiford

    It’s been long enough now that I can hardly imagine going back to the classic editor, but there are still people out there who haven’t made the switch. This post talks about some of the differences in workflow when building a custom theme.

    wpdev.academy/concepts/block…

  • Blocks Have Changed How We Approach Building Themes – Here’s How

    Blocks Have Changed How We Approach Building Themes – Here’s How

    This post talks about how WordPress themes are approached in a block-based WordPress world, compared to how it’s done in the classic editor.

  • Alex Standiford

    If you’re coming from an extensive class-based PHP background, and trying to learn React, one of the BIG things you’ll have to learn to understand is composition-based patterns, instead of inheritance.

    Also, Promises. Get really f’cking comfortable with Promises.

  • Alex Standiford

    “This lifestyle has opened up the possibility to invest my lifetime by caring about the way we live and the experience we have of living instead of hustling to afford a lifestyle focused on consuming things.”

    Kate calls these diatribes. I like it <3

    casualweirdness.life/making-a-life-…

  • Alex Standiford

    WordPress is harder to develop with than before, but it’s becoming much more powerful, and the needs to actually build with custom code is decreasing as blocks, and plugins are being developed.

    It’s more sophisticated than before, and I believe that it is better for it.

  • Alex Standiford

    Writing blog content consistently is something that I believe is the single most important marketing skill to obtain. No matter how you spin it, you’re gonna be writing. A lot.

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Alex
Alex
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Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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