WordPress plugin specialist
At the Portsmouth WordPress Meetup on 18th October 2018, I gave my presentation entitled “Switching from Canvas to Storefront”, subtitled “How to update a WooCommerce site with a new theme … the trials and tribulations”.
The talk was based on my experience of migrating Steve Goodyear’s Motorcycle Products online shop sgmotorsport.biz.
Silver Bullet’s Scrap Book
For 28 years I’ve been collecting pairs of words where one starts with an S and the next starts with a B. I’ve written a short book to celebrate my sixtieth birthday. The book is available in a variety of forms: paperback, PDF, and e-book coming soon.
Find the complete SB list at the websites seriouslybonkers.com and bigram.co.uk.
43 years ago, at the tender age of 16 years and 11 months, I entered the IT industry. My salary was £1690 per annum; £65 a fortnight.
Version 2.7.0 of Gutenberg was released recently. It’s still auto saving drafts with a vengeance. 7 revisions so far on this short post. 9 now. 10. Oh my!
So I tried the Editable permalink. I found at least three problems. I bet no one’s bothered to raise them.
Oh fuck me! It’s a usability nightmare.
Most years, before visiting WordCamp London, I write a long bucket list of things I hope to achieve. This year it’s no different, although the main focus is on developing blocks for the new block editor, Gutenberg.
So what's wrong with gutenberg and classic-editor?
In my first post about the new block editor for WordPress, code named Gutenberg, I commented on the apparent absence of an implementation plan. I was also acutely aware that I didn’t have a plan either. So, since then I’ve been attempting to:
Should Gutenberg be allowed into WordPress core?
At the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup, 22nd February 2018, I gave a short talk and demonstration of the Gutenberg plugin which is being proposed as the new block editor for WordPress. In the deck are three slides entitled Road map, Current landscape and Projection. In this post I want to air my concerns about the part of the project that nobody appears to be thinking about… implementation.
Today I updated the version of PHP I use in my development environment, from PHP 7.1.1 to PHP 7.2.0. I then raised GitHub Issues for each of the problems I found running my PHPUnit tests. New versions of a number of my plugins will be available soon. [Read more…]
