I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to look back and establish the process in my mind when building plugins or themes. I’ve done it so many times that you’d think I’d just remember it but I don’t — I always have to go spend a few minutes reminding myself. So, here’s a […]

A few months back I started exploring Tailwind CSS – a utility first CSS framework – and it has fast become my first choice for building UIs. Coming from a semantic approach using a modified BEM style of CSS, the utility-first approach took a little getting used to. I mainly struggled with how large my […]

Ever used the Limit Login Attempts plugin to help safeguard against attacks? I usually find this installed on managed hosts like Pressidium and Flywheel and it’s a very nice plugin and does a solid job. Unfortunately, I get blocked by it now and then which is, admittedly, my own fault as I’m either logging in […]

When you start digging into WordPress partials, things really open up on the theme side. Being able to reuse templates is a nice feature and can help keep your code nice and tidy but if your templates are using WordPress’ template tags, you can easily find yourself in situations where you need the markup from […]

The ability to control exactly what buttons are available in a WYSIWYG field is a really neat point of customisation available in Advanced Custom Fields. The WYSIWYG field is definitely convenient but I often find myself needing to use it for no other reason than the most basic of formatting. Leaving too many options in […]

I recently found myself in a situation where I needed to test the non-logged in user experience while Elementor’s maintenance mode was enabled. The quick and easy solution I came up with was to override the option Elementor uses to enable maintenance mode when the query string contained a parameter of my choosing. Using the […]

A collection of shell commands I use to get things done in a snap (or close to) This command basically moves all files two directories deep up one level. Handy if a WordPress media library structure has changed and you have a lot of files to reorganise. The -i flag prompts you for confirmation where […]

Learn how you can save time and disk space by proxying images to a remote host while working on Laravel Valet.

I’ve been working a lot with Laravel lately and a really nice side effect of doing so has been using the very lean Laravel Valet for local development. It is super lean, super fast, and the more I use it, the less I want to be messing about with virtual machines. What’s my beef with […]

Just a nice visual reference of CSS box shadows I like to use from time to time.