Fellow WordPress developers building websites, I beg you. Please learn about must-use plugins, and every time you think about adding a special hook to your functions.php file, think for a moment – is what you’re adding going likely going to want to continue to be used when you change themes? If so, put it in your must-use plugin instead of the theme. You’ll save yourself (or the next person to work on this site) so many headaches when you change the theme in the future.
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Alex Standiford
Thinking a lot about this phrase from Stephen King’s “On Writing” a lot today. He said it specifically about writing, but I have found that it applies to idea generation in-general.
There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.
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Alex Standiford
It’s that time of year where I start getting back into the habit of waking up at 5AM to work on side projects before I start my day in-earnest. It’s always been the most-productive time of day for me, and I think I can attribute a lot of my career growth to this time-block. I know it doesn’t work for everyone, and I don’t do it year ’round these days, but I’m glad to be back.
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Alex Standiford
My favorite feature of the new iOS is that you can set the wallpaper to change every time your screen turns on. I set it to “Nature” and every time my phone comes on I get to see one of the many amazing vistas I’ve taken a photo of over the years in our travels. It’s so nice to just get a constant trickle of personal photos like that.
Also, I love that the clock clips behind the vista sometimes.
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Alex Standiford
The splash screen background while migrating to the new Outlook looks straight out of Windows XP. I’m disappointed to find that I didn’t get the music, too.
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Alex Standiford
I’ve started to use Cloudinary for media hosting solution on this site. It seems really good so-far, except for the fact that my media URLs aren’t working quite right when I upload from mobile. Hoping to get that resolved because other than that, this seems like the perfect solution to my problem.
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Alex Standiford
I believe that WordPress isn’t software. It’s not community. It’s not a single person, no matter how significant that person thinks they are. I believe that WordPress is the manifestation of a belief that the web is at its best when it’s open. If I genuinely believed that forking WordPress would be good for WordPress, and the web, I’d contribute to it over the existing platform in a heartbeat.
