Another WordCamp. But this one’s different – I’m not going as a volunteer but as a speaker, to deliver my first ever talk. All the way up in Edinburgh, it’s also going to be the smallest of the WordCamps I’ve attended too.
How will the talk go and what is a smaller WordCamp like?
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I can’t believe I’m having to write this but after far too many comments and even people attempting to personally contact me, from people who don’t bother to fully read or just comprehend things, Penny is a family cat and is NOT Penny “the talking cat”. Comments are closed.
On Monday, one of our (two) cats, Penny, had to be put down. Here’s what I posted to Facebook at the time…
(more…)Sad news. This morning our elder cat, Penny, had to be put to sleep. It looks as if the prolific mouser ate some rat poison, which kicked in overnight.
As with all our cats, she was a rescue. Licking and rolling over for tummy rubs, we could only assume her previous owner had dogs. She particularly liked the underside of her chin being rubbed. With Charley joining the family in recent years, she came to begrudgingly accept him (but only that).
Quiet, no-nonsense and not always elegant, she’ll be very much missed, particularly by me. Although I won’t miss her dragging mice into the house.
She died purring as I stroked her under her chin.
PHPCS, an open source “code sniffing tool”, is essential for any WordPress developer. Indeed, if you’re a WordPress VIP client, it’s a requirement, as code is only allowed into production if it sniffs clean for a specific ruleset.
Let me explain a little more, including how you should be using it.
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WPLift has posted an excellent list of 20+ tips for Gutenberg. Here’s 5 more.
For the serious writer, word counts can be essential. In the classic editor, a simple word count was shown at the bottom of the editor window. Although no longer constantly on display, the Gutenberg solution gives you not just word counts but also information on headings, paragraphs and blocks too.
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As a plugin developer, I donate my time and energies to the WordPress community. I make it clear that I don’t support anyone modifying my code or running it on a non-standard variation of WordPress – this includes forks.
Thankfully, some forks make it easy for their use to be detected.
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