Category: Development

  • How to embed Threads in WordPress

    How to embed Threads in WordPress

    Need to embed Threads into WordPress? With a quick bit of code I’ll show you how – with both an automatic embedding method as well as a backup shortcode too.

    For now, it’s pretty “quick and dirty”, but until Meta release an API this is possibly the best method.

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  • How to position a WordPress admin menu

    How to position a WordPress admin menu

    When developing for WordPress, one of the great thing about adding admin menus is the flexibility that it gives you. But that same flexibility has led to some truly awful user experiences.

    Let me show some examples and explore what is wrong with some of the things that developers do and what best path is.

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  • How to abandon a WordPress plugin

    How to abandon a WordPress plugin

    Look, it happens. There are numerous reasons why we may need to walk away from one of our plugins. But just leaving it isn’t cool.

    Why shouldn’t you walk away from your plugin? Simply put, your users won’t know and, without realising, the plugin they have installed may become a security risk containing unpatched vulnerabilities. Or it may no longer work as well with newer versions of WordPress, without the person using it realising that’s the cause.

    So, In this article I’m going to provide a multi-pronged approach to how you can do it but not leave your users in the lurch – everything from a minimal approach to full, deleting from the WordPress directory and walking away.

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  • Threads: How to create a link to your profile

    Threads: How to create a link to your profile

    Yesterday Threads launched, to much media fanfare. Right now, it’s staunchly app-only, with threads.net taking you to a pretty logo and a QR code that will help you install the app.

    But, how do you link people through to your profile from, say, your website if there’s no web presence? After a bit of digging I found the answer…

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  • Björk WordPress Theme: Violently Happy

    Björk WordPress Theme: Violently Happy

    I’ve used themes by Anders Norén before. They’re extremely well made and always free, with no missing features that you need to pay extra for.

    One of his more recent ones is Björk – a simple, clean and fast block theme intended for blogs and personal websites. Most importantly, for me, is that it makes use of Full Site Editing (FSE), something I’ve never played with before. And it was really time for me to do so.

    Hence, I’m now using this very theme on this site. I hope you like the change.

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