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I have been using Webpack with my WordPress development now fo a few years and implemented it using Laravel Mix. You can read more about that here. But more recently I have started using BrowserSync, mostly because I was working on a front end heavy site and was doing a lot more incremental changes to…
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What is Site Kit? You might be like me and wondering what Google Site Kit is. Like many Google products, there seem to be so many cool products out there that no one knows about. Site Kit is no exception. Site Kit brings many of the Google advertising and analytics tools inside of WordPress giving…
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At the moment I have 5 posts open to edit. Looking at them, all I see is “Edit Post < Adam Patterson – WordPress“. Sure 5 tabs aren’t that many and not that hard to sort through but I began to wonder why WordPress wouldn’t simply show the post title for pages and posts. Lucky…
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I can confirm that centering of most media embeds does not work. Left and right alignment do, but it then causes content to wrap around the media in an undesirable ( for me ) way. Here is some SCSS that mostly worked for me. There is some spacing on the right that I haven’t tracked…
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I have been spending some time re-working my starter theme Axe to support Gutenberg, and as part of the process has been updating the theme to support Bootstrap 4 as well as a bunch of other cleanup. After testing some dummy content I noticed that out of the box Gutenberg does not support responsive video…
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I’m not sure if I’m the only one who has tried to Cache WordPress API endpoint wp-json without a plugin, but I sure didn’t find anything useful out there. I have been working with the WordPress API bringing some blog content into a non WordPress site and noticed that like most things with WordPress the…
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Last year we bought a PS4 Pro, I was excited having never really played a modern console. We picked up a Destiny 2 and a hand full of other games. Destiny 2 quickly became one of my favorites connecting with friends and eventually joining a clan. My 11-year-old son also enjoyed the game. He would…
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Previously I had written about how to setup MAMP4 and get it working with Laravel, Since then MAMP 5 has come out and while not much is different I thought that I would go over some of the configuration changes needed to your environment up and running. Install MAMP 5: Download Set up your document…
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Webpack is the third build tool that I have used in the last 2-3 years. It’s inevitable that you will come across build tools. For small quick and dirty projects I still use Code Kit, But for those larger and more complex sites, I like to use Laravel Mix. It seemed to offer the most…
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I think I am what I would call an Idea guy. I like to come up with “cool” ideas, some times I will go as far as to write some specs, make some simple sketches… And then totally forget about them. Or if I am lucky I will come back to them months later. This…
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Deploying production and staging sites using Docker is quick and simple, but having one repo, two servers that need two environments can be tricky. My Docker setup involves a container on AWS, and deployments from Cloud Docker. When I deploy a change or a new feature to production or staging the entire environment is pushed….
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I have been using Laravel Mix or Elixer as it was once known with Laravel for a long time now and have recently started using it with my WordPress projects. I thought I would share how you can get up and running with as little hassle as possible. I also include my mix() method that…
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I have an updated post on Super simple local wildcard SSL that will allow you to greatly simplify the certificate creation steps. Local SSL has always been something that I ignored. So I never gave it the time of day. That is until Google did the unthinkable. They bought the .dev TLD. And not only…
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My Dad told me a story many years ago when I was a wide-eyed kid looking up at him ( I was probably 9 ) that I think most people don’t really think about. He told me that honest employees will always make less money. He didn’t tell me this to set me off down…
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As if I didn’t have enough on my plate already. Managing a full-time job, family, and Freelance work. I also thought it would be fun to record some of the work I do in my free time. I would like to start a site soon where I will interview and showcase local makers. So far,…
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