i’m not here to judge — change is tough. but i will say that gutenberg makes the content creation experience so fun
that said, you might have a site where gutenberg isn’t necessary (a bunch of metadata options for each page/post type)
so instead of installing an older version of wordpress (v4.9.*), use this function to disable gutenberg and revert to the classic editor
Read more »i admit that i was afraid of upgrading to the new gutenberg editor… either preventing my site from upgrading to v5.0 or even adding a function to keep the classic editor alive.
in developing my site, i wanted to include performance enhancements. namely, lazyloading using lozad. however, out of the box, the image block markup looks like this:
Read more »as mentioned in my previous post, i used lighthouse to create reports to show the status of four important stats: performance, accessibility, best practices, and seo
here was the initial report created on launch day
“all green” (90-100 scores) was the initial goal
Read more »or: quarantine life is very boring
that said, i’ve learned a lot from my time at rdi, development-wise — i wanted to apply those learnings to my personal site. this is how i get better at things — by doing
…also, i haven’t updated this code since 2017 — it’s been way too long
Read more »a running, hopefully constantly updated, list of the tools i use when making the websites
there are a few assumptions:
the best method i’ve found to use a lean svg on your site — from eps to svg
reference:
some browsers can’t handle svg’s quite yet, so i’ve found this nice little lightweight javascript plugin that’ll switch out svg’s with their png counterparts (you’d have to have both files on your server)
This is one of the worst bugs I’ve encountered in a while. The worst because you really don’t know exactly where the issue can be fixed…
If you go to your site’s RSS feed (http://YOUR_SITE_URL/feed), you might see this message:
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://YOUR_SITE_URL/feed
Line Number 3, Column 1:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><rss version=”2.0″
^
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say you have 10 group names, labeled ‘$group_1’, ‘$group_2’, etc. and you want to display each of them. a quick way to do that is to use dynamic variables (aka variable variables)
for ($i = 1; $i < 11; $i++) {
echo ${'group_' . $i};
}