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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  • 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.

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

  • 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 #WordPress theme. wpdev.academy/concepts/block…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • “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-…

  • 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.

  • 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. buff.ly/3eX7JMB

  • Rate my setup.

  • Kate and I have always had this dynamic, where I bring in income, and she builds our life to use that income as effectively as possible. We’ve always focused on both ends of cash flow – reduce expenses while increasing income. I got the easy job.