I designed my business cards with CSS/HTML. Why? Well honestly, I can’t think of any reason other than “it seemed fun”. You can see it on CodePen.
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Post Settings Sidebar Example
This PR introduces a new document to the fields API that illustrates how to build a sidebar in the post settings section sidebar in the block editor. The goal of this PR is to help add visibility on one of the many ways in which a field is used inside WordPress.
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See You at WordCamp US!
I’m going to be at WordCamp US this year. This conference is well-timed because I’m starting to think about finding freelance work for the upcoming Winter season. I haven’t seen anyone in-person in WordPress since 2019! I can’t wait to see y’all!
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Alex Standiford
It would be so nice to have a basic microblog plugin/app that turned your WordPress site into a microblog using a custom post type. I haven’t tried because I don’t know how to make mobile apps.
Also, I’ve said “I wish I knew how to make mobile apps” one time too many. Perhaps this winter will be the time I finally learn React Native.
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Alex Standiford on How WordPress and the Fediverse Can Be Combined
I was featured on WP Tavern, where Nathan and I talked about how the Fediverse has transformed my approach to publishing content online.
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I Built an Indexing Platform For an External News Aggregation API
This was a fun, and challenging project that made extensive use of Underpin. It felt good to utilize the library in this context, and it was exciting to see it reliably work in-action.
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Alex Standiford
This is a big deal for headless WordPress. I’m already using something that handles this on my site now, but something supported and maintained by a company like Automattic is significant.
https://lobby.vip.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/new-in-beta-block-data-api/
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Alex Standiford
I think I’d really benefit from some kind of media service that handles the photos and videos on my WordPress site. I need a more-reliable way to upload videos that auto-converts the videos, optimizes them, serves them, organizes them, and all of that fancy stuff. WordPress works, but it’s never really been a great media tool. Hmm.