herb miller
WordPress plugin specialist
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Show and tell – What’s going on?
Yesterday, the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup was a series of Show and Tell talks. Along the lines of Lightning talks, these are talks of approximately 10 minutes, where individuals share something they’ve been working on. There were 7 talks planned:
- Richard Bell @Rich Bell demoed Ray and Background WordPress processing,
- Mark Wilkinson @wpmark demoed his Just In Time CSS,
- Elliott Richmond @erichmond showed us how to run Xdebug using Visual Code Studio, setting breakpoints, watching variables and changing values on the fly,
- Ross Wintle @magicroundabout demoed his new CSS and PHP based spam pixel plugin to block spam bots
- Keith Devon @keithdevon showed us his work on CSS grid for block based themes
- We ran out of time before @Jonnyauk had a chance to show his latest work with template parts ( PHP version not FSE ).
- and somewhere in the middle of it I talked about 3 plugins I’ve written to help visualise my server side performance: oik-bwtrace sb-chart-block and slog.
This post is the annotated version of the slides.
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April 20, 2021 -
Slog – server performance testing
An update on my long running endeavour to visualise the effect on server performance of changes to my WordPress websites.
Since 2015 I’ve been developing a routine to compare the effect on server response times of the top 12 WordPress plugins. I’m just about ready to publish some results.
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February 14, 2021 -
WebP for my iPad
OK. so I’ve demonstrated that my iPad can’t display WebP format images, so I’ll have to try the picture tag method as a polyfill.
This is the sample HTML copied from CSS Tricks: Using WebP Images.
So let’s try displaying
oik-types-banner-772x250.webpto browsers that support it and the JPEG version for those that don’t.
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February 6, 2021 -
Image size reduction by quality
You can speed up your website by reducing the size of images. You can reduce image size by adjusting the image quality. Do this before you upload the file!
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February 6, 2021 -
Localization of Full Site Editing themes
The WordPress Gutenberg project’s plan for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of Full Site Editing themes (FSE) has not yet been formulated. I’ve written a proposal, entitled Internationalization and localization: translating templates and template parts, raised as Feature request #27402.
I believe that very little needs to be done to Internationalize a file containing Gutenberg blocks and HTML, and that it can be translated and localized into a statically delivered file in the user’s required locale ( language and country ) using the process described in the feature request.
This post briefly discusses some of the challenges of translating rich text content.
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December 6, 2020
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