The mermaids looks so much better when I tell Chat to give them shirts.
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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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Alex Standiford
Something I frequently need in Siren is a flowchart to help explain how different affiliate programs work, so I’m putting together a flowchart block. Making good use of the LeaderLine library and core’s group block, as well as an existing card block I already had laying around. Really loving how much less code I’m writing to do simple stuff like flex layouts with full site editing.
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Alex Standiford
I’m still getting used to using a full site theme for WordPress. But WOW today was a win. I’m working on setting up the documentation portal for Siren Affiliates, and literally just created a custom post type, and that was the extend of the code. I’m able to build all of the template layouts for the post type in the FSE context.
This is REALLY cool!
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Alex Standiford
I’m working on the launch documentation for Siren. I’m pretty comfortable with video, so I decided a great place to start is by building a getting started course using Lifter LMS. I think that’ll translate into text fairly fast.
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Alex Standiford
I didn’t come up with Siren overnight. It represents years of experience, both as a developer and a user of Affiliate programs.
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How Multiple Programs Makes Siren Easier To Maintain
Other affiliate plugins for WordPress are notoriously bad at maintaining affiliate programs, particularly when the program has several special conditions. This post dives into how Siren avoids these pitfalls.
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Coding Practices, PHP Nomad, and ChatGPT with Alex Standiford
This was a really fun conversation! I don’t get to nerd out this unapologetically too often on podcasts haha
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Alex Standiford
Putting together a better homepage for Siren. I need tons of fake data, so I guess it’s finally time to start putting together a generator. I’m so, so grateful for the Faker library because it makes this WAY simpler.
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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 […]