Notes on WordPress, custom PHP and JavaScript from years of building and maintaining software for small businesses.
Working with clients in the US, the UK and Australia for twenty-four years has taught me how to manage programming projects across time zones. Here's why I don't take calls…
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Read more →Preparing your WordPress website for AI search starts with checking whether search engines and AI tools can access your pages. Then comes the content. Explain your services, answer customer questions…
Read more →WordPress is introducing Ipsum, a new default theme planned for version 7.2. It offers a simple starting point for blogging, with options to add headers, sidebars and other design elements.…
Read more →A web designer plans how your website looks. A web developer builds its pages and makes its features work. Using examples of appointment bookings, price calculations and WordPress customization, this…
Read more →In this post I am going to explain what is an API, using a food outlet and a dictation app I have built for myself. I mostly work in PHP…
Read more →My computer restarted and my Notepad++ tabs were gone ChatGPT installed on my PC just solved a big problem for me. I don’t switch off my computer. I put it…
Read more →For years, much of my WordPress programming went straight into the functions.php file. If I needed a shortcode, an admin change or a small function for one client, this was…
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