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  • When WordPress plugin adoption goes wrong

    When WordPress plugin adoption goes wrong

    I love reading Mika Epstein’s stories about her dealings with plugin developers, but never thought I’d be writing something similar myself. And, like Mika, I’m going to keep this anonymous, albeit you’d probably be able to find the details with a little digging

    First, let’s rewind. Back in November I some of my plugins up for adoption. Soon after, a developer approached me wanting to take one of them on. His credentials were good and he seemed appreciative of the opportunity to take the code over.

    I switched things over to him and, all done, I walked away, happy to have given him the proverbial keys. In this case, ownership of the SVN report on wordpress.org as well as transferring my Github repo to him. The latter of which included a reasonably sized issues log of requested enhancements, as well as bug fixes.

    But, a couple of months later, it turned oddly sour.

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  • Facebook Marketplace. Just… why?

    Facebook Marketplace. Just… why?

    I’ve tried selling on FB Marketplace in the past and had endless issues. Mainly people just wasting my time, particularly asking me to deliver when I make it clear that the item is pick-up only. Or just people asking me “is this available” when the Marketplace page clearly shows it is. Then they never respond again after I confirm that it is.

    Anyway, at the weekend, a friend suggested I get back into it, as I have some things to sell, and she never has such problems. Maybe I had a bad break before and it’s time to try again?

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  • Add some techno-babble to your WordPress experience

    Add some techno-babble to your WordPress experience

    Have you ever wondered what a “microscopic anaphasic gravity intake” is? What about “unicobalt particle chamber”?

    No, me neither.

    But you too can now marvel at a piece of randomly generated Star Trek-style techno-babble right in your WordPress admin.

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  • Using SVG icons with your WordPress plugins

    Using SVG icons with your WordPress plugins

    When adding a plugin to wordpress.org, you have the ability to provide icons for it. There are 2 sizes, to take into account retina screens – 128×128 pixels and 256×256 pixels. However, I’ve recently noticed that they also allow an SVG icon as well – if you specify that, it will be used in preference to the other.

    For years I’ve been making use of very talented designers on Fiverr to make the icons for my plugins but never thought to ask them for SVG files, only PNG. But, as is often the case these days, AI was the answer.

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  • Why I can’t sell a PlayStation 4

    Why I can’t sell a PlayStation 4

    Unlike my PlayStation 3, I bought my PlayStation 4 when it was first released and it served me well. However, with the release of the PlayStation 5 I decided to upgrade.. to a PlayStation 4 Pro (I had too much left to play on my PS4 to be able to justify paying for a PS5).

    For whatever reason, I didn’t do anything with my original console, but dug it out the other day, gave it a clean, checked everything worked and, today, headed for my local CeX to sell it. But they wouldn’t accept it. They pointed me to a local pawnbroker, so I took it there. They wouldn’t have it either.

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