Posts about Programming
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AI is a tool. Years of industry experience makes its suggestions work.
AI tools can speed up web design and content work, but they do not replace strategic judgment, client and customer understanding or long-term responsibility. Quality still depends on experienced people shaping the right solution.
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Simplicity is a feature
Not every project needs the latest framework, the most expensive plugin, or a feature list as long as your arm.
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Dynamic relative dates in WordPress
Adding a shortcode feature to WordPress to display relative dates in the content.
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Combining WordPress Theme Settings and WordPress Blocks
Extending the WordPress Button Block with a custom link URL attribute.
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The ups and downs of efficiency
How using AI doesn’t just mean advantages but also notable disadvantages.
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Make sure that your WordPress downloads are protected
Making sure that your website content — including files — are only available to suitably-authorised site visitors.
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Using a specific individual image from a video as a poster image
I use the extensibility of the WordPress core blocks to improve the output of the video player.
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Predefined aspect ratios in WordPress
How I integrated the WordPress built-in aspect ratios for a custom image carousel block.
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Thoughts on the WordPress interactivity API
In which I explain the advantages and disadvantages of using the new WordPress interactivity API.
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High-performance single-page applications with WordPress
How I used and extended WordPress’ own interfaces to build a performant and interactive single view.
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Say Hello loves Open Source
In technical terms, “open source” is the umbrella term for software that can be used and further developed free of charge.
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Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is a new technology that allows websites to utilise features previously only known from mobile apps.
