I scrapped 2 months worth of work on a headless front end application for Siren, and went server-side with PHP. In doing so, I literally built the entire interface in 3 days.
Why are we still so stuck on headless?
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Alex Standiford
CSS has gotten so, so good over the last few years. So many things that were really difficult to do are now trivial.
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Alex Standiford
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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I’m Looking For Freelance Work (Resolved)
I’m gearing up for WordPress side projects this season. Seeking teams managing complex WP sites needing tech help. I have experience in technical site audits, custom RESTful integrations, and plugin feature work. Check the post for more information, links to relevant case studies, and how to get in-touch.
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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 just now discovered that Codepen closed down their blog post functionality. I had some content written on that platform, so I guess it’s time to migrate it to my core site.
One such article is a fun breakdown I wrote back in 2016 on how I built an SNES controller using CSS+HTML.
https://alexstandiford.com/articles/essays/a-breakdown-of-the-snes-controller-built-with-css-html
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Alex Standiford
Me: what would make this blog post with tons of images nicer, Kate?
Kate: They all need to be grouped up in a carousel, like Instagram
Me: gaaaaah I knew you were gonna say that!
And that’s why I spent the last hour turning the gallery blocks on Casual Weirdness and my personal site into galleries. Which, honestly, was pretty easy because React.
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Alex Standiford
I’m going back and finding content created by me that is published on other sites, and duplicating it on my site. I stumbled on this 3-part series I did just before I got hired at GoDaddy.
It’s all about how I switched from using ACF and the classic editor to a full site block editing experience, and includes some samples of the tooling I used at the time. There’s some good info in here, particularly about my process.
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Alex Standiford
I updated my RSS feeds so that you can filter content by tag. So if you only want to follow a specific topic of mine, you can simply append
?tag=tag-nameat the end of any of my RSS URLs, and it will only show content with that tag.Example: https://www.alexstandiford.com/rss.xml?tag=WordPress
Eventually, I’ll actually embed this into the interface to make it a little easier to use, but for now this will do just fine ????.