WordPress Syntax Highlighting (Colours) for Code Blocks
You may have noticed that the code examples I use on this site (which runs on WordPress) use a default <code> block, but the code is presented with different colours due to code block syntax...
View ArticleTurning a Broken Windows Laptop Into a Working Chromebook
My wife owned a broken old Acer Ultrabook running Windows 10 (originally running Windows 7). It was a lovely little thing when it was new with some great specs, but as the years went by it became...
View ArticleAdd Select2 as an InspectorControl in WordPress Gutenberg
For a project I was working on I wanted to use Select2 as a Gutenberg InpectorControl to allow me apply settings to a block. Select2 is a super handy replacement for select boxes on your website. In...
View ArticleWorking with Gutenberg and the WordPress REST API (Updated for WordPress 5)
In this article I take the Select2 component that I previously added to my Gutenberg plugin, and make it dynamic by taking advantage of the WordPress REST API. This code borrows heavily from the Secure...
View ArticleBroken React.createClass Component? Let’s Fix It!
If you are building WordPress Gutenberg Blocks (or even if you are not) you may be trying to get a third party React Component working in your build. But if it’s an older element, specifically one that...
View ArticleConverting React.createClass to React.Component
In my last article I talked about patching older versions of React to work in a modern environment. In this article I go one further and give a step by step guide to upgrading a classic React component...
View ArticleImport your Existing Website into a WordPress Install via RSS
Do you want to import an existing website into WordPress? Does that existing site provide an RSS feed? Then this is the article for you. The great news is WordPress has a default importer for RSS....
View ArticleCreate a Virtual File in WordPress with Support for WordPress Multisite
Recently I was working on a WordPress Multisite instance, and I needed each site (multilingual in this instance) to have their own unique dynamically generated sitemap. I generated these sitemaps by...
View ArticleDynamic Variable Names in PHP
A question I sometimes get asked is can you dynamically set the name of a variable in PHP. For example someone may have a loop, and they want the variables in that loop to have unique names. The answer...
View ArticleHackathon – Hack the DMC – March 2018
Hackathons (or Hack Days) are a great way to engage with technical people in your community (not to mention one or two business folks and entrepreneurs), they are also a huge amount of fun! Over the...
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