• Alex Standiford

    Just a friendly reminder, y’all. Laraberg does exist.

  • Alex Standiford

    Please WordPress people – keep custom logic that is not theme-specific out of your themes. It really matters as that project grows.

    Even if you dump it in a single file plugin, that’s way better. Pretend its’ functions.php, I don’t care – just keep it out of the theme 🙏🙏🙏

  • Alex Standiford

    I’m on a mission to get social media off of my phone, but I still want to be able to publish content. I don’t want to consume on my phone though.

    I think if I can get a Twitter cross poster working reliably, my site plus the WordPress app can get me there.

  • Alex Standiford

    Finding myself increasingly interested in updating my site so that it maps post formats to post types. So if you set a post format, it saves it as a mapped post type.

    I think that would give me all of the benefits of multiple post types, but still make it possible to use post types in the mobile app. This would make it a lot easier to filter post types since you don’t have to use a tax query.

  • Alex Standiford

    Here’s a chart of my search analytics for my personal site over the last year. Can you tell when I switched back to non headless WordPress?

    I know headless can be SEO optimized, but in my experience, WordPress makes it effortless, comparatively speaking.

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  • Alex Standiford

    So crazy idea – what if split up into flavors, kinda like how Linux has? Is there any reason why something like that is actually a good idea vs backcompat plugins like Classic Editor?

    Just pondering out loud. Don’t read into this as something more than musings.

  • Alex Standiford

    Hey. You. It’s going to be okay.

    In the worst case scenario, WordPress won’t just evaporate overnight, and probably won’t at all. You will have time to pivot if you need to.

    We’re a smart, scrappy, and highly resourceful bunch.

    Close socials. This isn’t good for any of us.

  • Alex Standiford

    A possible alternative solution for those sites hosted at WP Engine. It might be possible to replicate the updater on the client side.

    It’s 4AM where the author’s at. If you’re awake and looking, maybe try it? Contribute some feedback?

    https://github.com/balazsrm/wp-local-updater

  • Alex Standiford

    If you’re running an agency, this is a great time to show your value if you have maintenance clients on WordPress.

    Communicate early. Communicate often. Your clients will take immense value in knowing someone is watching their back right now.