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  • What’s on my desk? 2024 edition!

    What’s on my desk? 2024 edition!

    For some reason I didn’t do one of these last year, despite me taking some time to give my home office a bit of an overhaul. So, time to share my current home office set-up to the world. Whether it’s of use to anyone I don’t know, but it may give someone some inspiration.

    And, yes, I’ve gone for a moody night shot, but only to demonstrate the lighting that I have in place.

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  • Putting WordPress plugins up for adoption & transferring ownership

    Putting WordPress plugins up for adoption & transferring ownership

    After writing last year about various ways of walking away from WordPress plugins that you’ve developed, I put words into action and put 3 of my plugins up for adoption. Two months later and 2 out of the 3 have now been taken over by other developers.

    In this post I want to share what I did to achieve this and what actions were then taken afterwards to hand them over to their new owners.

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  • WordPress: When do we stop and fix things?

    WordPress: When do we stop and fix things?

    This is often the case with software. Each major release cycle sees lots of new features being added, with minor released dedicated to security issues and major bugs (often causes by the previous major release). Rarely do we stop and spend a big chunk of time dealing with the minor things – the poor wording or the minor bugs.

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  • Making WordPress a little more inclusive. Again.

    Making WordPress a little more inclusive. Again.

    Over a number of years I’ve made various changes to WordPress to make it a little less exclusive with the language it’s used. Most of the time it’s been in the code comments but, sometimes, that also includes things that most people are more likely to see – the best example was the change in the Settings screen from a “black list” to a “block list”.

    And, after some time away from it, I’ve returned and submitted more language changes once more.

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  • Ban the buzzwords: speak clearly

    Ban the buzzwords: speak clearly

    I saw this on my Twitter timeline and, at first, thought it was a spoof but, after reading through the comments, I realised it wasn’t.

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