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I Sat In an 8 Hour Meeting and I Liked It
My biggest fear in freelancing again isn’t finances or security—it’s burning out. After weeks of searching for solutions, an intense marathon meeting finally gave me the clarity I needed to move forward.
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Federating My Website
This post explores how I’ve added enhancements to my site to better-integrate with the Fediverse, and also how I’m using the Mastodon app to publish content direct to my WP site (!)
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Bridges, not Ladders
I’ve found the biggest leaps in my career rarely come from climbing corporate ladders, but instead crossing bridges. This post is intended to be a gentle prompt for you to think about your career and consider “is it time to cross a bridge?”
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How I Made My WordPress Archive Style Different Post Formats
This is a big win for me! I was able to set up my site so that posts in an archive can be displayed based on the post format – WITHOUT building a custom block, just a small PHP snippet.
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I Re-Built My Website Using The Block Editor And Ollie
Reflecting on my experience in re-building my site from a headless site to a non-headless site, all in a single evening. WordPress has come so far.
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Maybe WordPress Needs To Re-Connect With “Why” Instead of “What”
Reflections on a recent WP Product Talk episode, and my thoughts on what WordPress may have lost touch with over the years.
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A Season Of Change
It’s been a heck of a week. I left my job, my wife started working on her art professionally, my kids started going to public school for the first time ever, I released a big Siren update, and I started picking up freelance work.
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3D Printing Kept Its Promise
3D printing is fulfilling the promise it made to me in 2005, and it’s been a genuine joy to dive back into it.
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I Built A Knowledge Base Using The Block Editor, And Whoa.
Reflecting on my experience building my first completely custom full site editing theme, from start to finish.
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Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin Is Making Your Life So Much Harder.
Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin is making your life so much harder. They look at affiliate programs backwards, and as a result, you create a single, gigantic, complex program. This is really limiting! Let’s dig into the pitfalls of that. The simplest version of these programs need to capture different commission types, and rules. – Special […]
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