Codeable reviews, are they real and how happy are Codeable clients really? If you have been following this blog you’ll know that I was accepted as a Codeable expert back in September of 2016. Since then I’ve completed 70 tasks through Codeable with an average rating of 5/5. You can even read some of the […]
Category archives: Development
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about dealing with Codeable.
If you have been following my blog you will know that I was accepted as a Codeable Expert in late 2015. I’ve since spent a fair amount of time espousing the advantages of working with Codeable. Now, one of my Codeable colleagues, Robin Scott from Silicon Dales has written what is probably the most extensive […]
Introducing Boss Box – a WordPress ready development environment
A modern, easy to configure, WordPress ready Vagrant box, perfect for local development. As a developer, one of the most important pieces of technology I use daily is my chosen virtual server stack. Depending on your operating system of choice, there are a few solid options out there, but since discovering Vagrant I've always preferred […]
WP HackerCast – Episode 3
I’m a little late posting this, mostly due to being very busy with WordCamp, but episode 3 of the WP HackerCast is live. Check it out.
Taking back ownership of the word ‘freelancer’
Based on some prompting by Hugh I applied as a speaker at PHPSouthAfrica this year. Apparently they still don’t know how little I actually know as they accepted my talk submission 😉 I’ll be talking just after afternoon tea about a topic that has been on my mind since 2010, that of the common perception […]
Gutenberg day 8 – Contributing to Core
I’m attempting my first shot at contributing to WordPress core with ticket that was opened 8 years ago! I feel like it’s small enough that I can get something done by the time the next release rolls around but useful enough that it will make peoples lives easier. Feel free to follow the ticket to […]
Gutenberg day 7 – New things
Today I'm especially excited to blog as I have a little news to share. The first episode of my new podcast has officially been published. WP Hacker Cast is my way of talking to and learning from all the great WordPress developers I know and communicate with. I've got some great interviews coming up, but […]
A month with Gutenberg
If you are in any way involved with WordPress and unless you've been living under a rock you're aware of the new Gutenberg editor that is currently in development. Gutenberg is what Matt and many other WordPress developers see as the future of WordPress. However, as with most new things, it's not been met with […]
What’s your Git Strategy?
As a freelance WordPress developer/consultant I rarely work in a team environment. So my usage of Git is mostly for my own purposes of being able to have my code backed up somewhere and the ability to create branches to try out new pieces of functionality without affecting the ‘master’ code base. Recently I was […]
Hooking into the onclick event of buttons in Divi
In the Divi Theme Users & Elegant Marketplace group, Brett Bumeter asked, “anyone ever find a quick way to add an onclick event to a Divi Button?” More specifically, Brett needs to replicate the onclick event on a regular html button, but using a Divi button. First thing we need to do is look at […]