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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  • Making some progress on my #react – based #WordPress website. I’m REALLY coming to like React.

  • Okay, the fact that CSSGrid enables me to push the footer to the bottom of the page WITHOUT specifying the footer height is HUGE.

  • HELLLP!!! wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3035โ€ฆ #WordPress #gutenberg

  • And, of course, as a double-whammy, I’m also finally getting around to learning how to customize Gutenberg. #WordPress

  • I’m REALLY digging the WP-CLI + React combo. I just built out an entire menu in WordPress, and it updated my React site without touching my mouse.

  • My website is such a gross misrepresentation of who I am today. It’s crazy how much you can change professionally in just a few years. I am FINALLY finding some time to rework it, and naturally, I’m re-building it as a React app using WordPress.

  • Building a WordPress theme with React is such a different workflow. Things that are trivial in WordPress are significant challenges in the WordPress API. And since I’m not keen on installing tons of plugins, I find myself building endpoints left and right. It’s fun, honestly.

  • Currently.

  • SO. MANY. UNIT. TESTS.

  • The biggest piece of advice I’d offer to someone adding their WordPress plugin to the directory – think very hard about what is needed to allow you to debug WITHOUT accessing their admin dashboard. For example, a common issue I had with Easy Age Verifier was that if the verifier doesn’t display properly, the user…