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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  • Been thinking a lot about making a series of courses where I just make WordPress plugins, and walk through how to build them. I love targeted courses, but I think there’s room for some really good courses that show you how to put all the information together.

  • Etna California. Hoooooly shit it’s small. I grew up in a very, VERY small place, and I’m getting some serious home vibes from this place.

  • One year in, but what’s next for us? Kate talk a bit about some of the thoughts swirling in our mind about balance and our future. buff.ly/2QUZYy6

  • I’m finding that during this 30-day stay, I fill my head with work, projects, and a lot of coding. Kate fills hers with much more important things. When we’re on the road, we talk about these things extensively. It rounds me out, I think. casualweirdness.life/contemplating-…

  • In light of the recent upgrades to Underpin, I spent this evening giving the theme boilerplate a little love. Hopefully the documentation upgrades will make it more-obvious how you’re supposed to use it. github.com/underpin-WP/un… #WordPress

  • I get queasy when I need to make a WordPress Widget. Setting up the fields, rendering the HTML, and getting fields to actually save is a PAIN. Which is why Underpin’s Widget loader is one of my favorite loaders. It makes creating widgets less-painful. github.com/Underpin-WP/wi…

  • Making some progress with making Underpin more-modular. It was so monolithic, and I think will benefit from being broken up a bit. Side bonus – every loader gets a readme now, so the documentation is a bit stronger. Beware – copypasta and typos abound! github.com/Underpin-WP

  • Cleaning up my GitHub repos today. Moving some, deleting many, archiving a few, and publishing some as well.

  • I just got a free $45 dollar bottle of wine from a local winery entrepreneur. Told him what I tasted and I’m pretty sure I offended him so much that he walked away. Which sucks because the wine is REALLY good.

  • -Ben bursts out door- WE NEED TO GO TO SPACE SOON. -Me- I agree. -Ben- I wan to go to the moon! -Me- Me too! -Ben- I want to see some aliens. -Me- Me too. I know what he meant – “I want to go to space, land on the moon, and see the aliens”,…