Disease
I had falsely assumed society would take a broad view of the situation. Life is about living, not about dying.
Development
Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
Gutenberg junk revisited
Almost two years ago, I wrote a post called Disable Gutenberg junk about how to remove extraneous junk CSS added via the Gutenberg plugin.
RIP John McCain
Many years ago I was hired to help out with building parts of USA senator John McCain’s presidential website. We disagreed wildly on many political issues, but it was exciting working on his website. Since he never became president, his presidential website never saw the light of day. He sadly died today following a long […]
Dynamically controlling CMB2 metaboxes
Demo code for how to implement dynamic metaboxes based on previous metabox values within the superuseful CMB2 metabox tool for WordPress.
Creating fake WordPress pages
Sometimes you may need to create a fake page within WordPress, which doesn’t actually exist. You could make a real page, then add a shortcode into it for addition of dynamic content. But this could confuse the site owners, and it’s just generally a bit messy, particularly if the URL needs to change regularly. Thankfully […]
Spam Annihilator
Have you ever been a member of a Telegram, Whatsapp or Discord group and had to deal with annoying spam bots waltzing in and posting content? I have. It annoyed/annoys the heck out of me. When I created my own Discord group, I added a crude spam blocking system to prevent spammers from following the […]
Disable Gutenberg junk
I’ve been playing around with the new Gutenberg plugin for WordPress. It’s direction is great and I really love it, but it has an annoying problem.
Foot in your ass!
Whilst perusing the bitchy rants on WP Tavern, I came across an excellent recommendation from Samuel Wood (aka Otto) for an alternativeto the Hello Dolly plugin. It’s called “Hello Samuel L Jackson” and it loads some excellent philosophical words shared by a great poet.
10 years since my first WordPress plugin
It is 10 years today since I released my first ever WordPress plugin. It’s been a blast, and I’ll probably release more in the future too. That first plugin was “Ryans Suckerfish WordPress Dropdown Menu”. It was in response to a blog post by Miriam Schwab on her blog the wordpressgarage.com (now wpgarage.com). She wrote […]
WooCommerce default number of products
I recently needed to set the default number of products selected in WooCommerce to 1. I created a plugin to achieve this.
Simple 404 Logger
When someone asks me to setup 404 logging in WordPress, I go on the hunt for a simple plugin which just does logging of the 404 errors and nothing else.
New plugin for editing bbPress author names
I had a problem which involved editing bbPress post names. So I created a plugin to allow forum admins to easily change the author of any bbPress post.