Plugin developer, Core contributor and support volunteer. Yeah, I’m a WordPress fan!
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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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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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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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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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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