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The Block Theme (Twenty Twenty-Four)…
It’s a completely different way of thinking about WordPress and how to develop. I’m still on the fence about what I think about Gutenberg/Block Editing vs. Elementor, but for a simple site like this one. Guess what? It works! This is site is my testing ground. More fun shit to come! Photo by Avery Evans
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Taking The Leap
I just migrated to the “beta” of the new block theme Twenty Twenty-Four. I want to see how the full site editing (FSE) works. So here goes! Wish me luck! CC0 licensed photo by Michelle Frechette from the WordPress Photo Directory.
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The Day After… The Final Day At WordCamp US and Washington DC
What a trip it’s been. WordCamp US was amazing, fun, and exhausting. Now me and the family travel back to Doylestown to get back to life. But before that we’re going to see my sister, who lives around DC, for lunch. I can’t wait! Then we go pick up the dog at my in-laws and
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Eventually Went Back To Sleep A WordCamp US Update
So today is the first full day of WordCamp US 2023. It’s been so much fun catching up with so many people. So much so that I’ll probably have to watch many of the sessions on WordPress.TV later. So in the last post I wrote that it was 3 am this morning and I couldn’t
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WordCamp US And The Excitement
It’s pretty much 3am here in DC. I crashed at 8:30pm/9pm last night and got a solid 3 1/2 hrs of sleep before the old blatter got me up. Then I tossed and turned until 2:40am and now I’m up. I think it’s the excitement of the conference that’s got me all jazzed and energized.
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WordCamp US 2023 Contributor Day
This year’s WordCamp US Contributor day was backed. There were easily hundreds of people wanting to give back to WordPress in some way. That’s really neat to see. I made my way to the Photo Team table and got to meet Michelle Frechette in person for the first time!!!! We know each other from WordFest
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In Search Of A Way To Make My WordPress More Fediverse-Friendly
I’m in search of a plugin that allows me to add icons for the plethora of Fediverse apps out there. I have yet to find one. Bah! Any suggestions? I made these logos into 40×40 pixel icons to use. Normal Fediverse Icon PixelFed Icon Lemmy Icon (Lemmy.World Style)
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Teaching My Kiddo To Love WordPress
My kid has wanted to build a website of his own for so long. He’s now 9 and today we started. He’s picking it up really quickly. I’m a proud daddy. More to come.
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WordFest 2021 Part Deux
To this moment in time, I still can’t believe the team over at Big Orange Heart did the second Wordfest in 6 months. The first one was in January and was excellent. The other one was on Friday (July 23rd) and was even better. I was glad that Goldstein Media was able to be a
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WordFest 2021
WordFest Live, run by A Big Orange Heart, is back for its second time! The inaugural WordFest Live was only in January. It was a total success that they wanted to do another one. WordFest Live is a 24 hour WordPress virtual conference to help promote the open-source operating system and mental health in the
