Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

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

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  • Hot take time! Cid was not a bad kid. He was an intelligent, inquisitive child who had a certain proclivity for pyrotechnics, and his outlet happened to be blowing up his toys. He did not deserve the trama for playing how he wanted to play.

  • Nothing makes me panic quite like when a config file opens using Nano instead of Vim.

  • One thing I see in many custom #WordPress sites is the misuse of custom post types. Sometimes they’re perfect, but sometimes they are a terrible choice. wpdev.academy/wordpress-tips…

  • Signs You Should Not Use a Custom Post Type

    Custom post types get misused all the time. Learn to identify the signs that you should not use a custom post type in WordPress

  • Does anyone know if re-usable blocks plan on supporting overrides? I really want to be able to make a re-usable block, use it elsewhere, but then override SOME parts, not all parts. Kind-of like how Sketch or even AutoCAD handle text in their own manifestation of blocks.

  • I forgot how much I love The Fragile by NIN.

  • So, neat thing. All of Ben’s homeschooling supplies were purchased last week to start school this week. We sent it to a local @amazon locker and the locker has been shut down since Thursday. They told us on Thursday 24-48 hours. It’s still broken. With all of our stuff in it. L

  • Got oats in bulk using a re-usable container today. It was over $5 for this. I paid less than 2 dollars to buy oats in this originally. Why in the hell is is more-expensive to make conscious, earth friendly decisions? So backwards.

  • Kate’s been drawing again, and it makes me so, so happy.

  • One of my favorite things about Nearly Headless is that it literally works with WordPress. It’s just a theme. It’s a fancy theme, but at the end of the day, it works exactly like a native WordPress theme. It can be distributed, deployed, and used without any fancy server setups.