If I could wrap my planning for WCEU 2023 into one word it would be “chaotic”. And when it comes to travel, that’s not normally what I’m like.
The last couple of months have been hard – physically and mentally. And, as a result, I’d put WCEU to one side and, as a result, I didn’t do a lot of things I should have. Thankfully, my people network, and a lot of luck, got me through.
Which was lucky, as I wasn’t just attending, but speaking.
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The plugin Hello Dolly comes bundled with every WordPress installation and adds a line of the famous to the top of the WordPress dashboard. And it’s not always appreciated.
This is the most useless plugin ever created
Why???
For The Love of GOD, Why is this STILL on the Repo?
…are just 3 of the 1 star reviews for it.
Why is it included? Well, it’s not basically Matt wants everyone to learn the lyrics to one of his favourite songs. No, it’s included as an example of a basic plugin and how anyone can write one. It’s a demo.
But it’s been in the plugin directory for 15 years and probably existed for even longer, with no real updates during this time. And, as a demonstration, it’s now out-of-date. As an example of how to write a plugin, it’s no longer doing its job.
So, as a mini personal project, I’ve decided to bring Hello Dolly up to date. Sadly, I can’t make people love it.
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WCEU is just a few weeks away, this time coming from the beautiful city of Athens.
And, assuming it doesn’t put you off, I’ll be one of the speakers. My talk has the title of “10 Things WordPress Plugin Developers Should Avoid”. I promise it’s less click-baity than the title suggests.
Back in 2008 I released an online tool (which was a simple page on this site) for CSS compression. You pasted in your CSS, pressed a button and it compressed it.
However, I never really did much else with it – either improving what it did and what functions it provided, but also promoting it.
Now, I’ve taken the original compression script and open sourced it for everyone to copy, fork, or just generally use.
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In the upcoming month I’m going to share a number of ways of compressing CSS. And one of the most basic is to reduce the various colour values down.
Usually, hex values are used and, sometimes, the colour names. And choosing the right one can save up to 13 characters per reference. Let’s explore how…
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