Jan Boddez on Inspired by the many colorful, Carbon-generated images of source code, I sat down and created Source Snap, a pure PHP Featured Image generator in WordPress plugin form. Continue reading Colorful Source Code Images →
Jan Boddez on I’ve added a Notes section to this blog. ‘Notes’—not unlike my longer ‘articles’—are simply WordPress posts, but carry a ‘status’ Post Format. What’s more, though, is that as soon as I hit publish, they’ll also appear on Mastodon and Twitter (a form of POSSE). Continue reading A Notes Section →
Jan Boddez on Corcel is a Laravel package that greatly simplifies pulling data from a WordPress database. Using it feels somewhat like—and at the same time completely different from—using WP_Query. One thing I—a rather inexperienced Laravel user—struggled a bit with, though, is fetching posts by Post Format. Here’s how it’s done. Continue reading WordPress Post Formats in Corcel →
Jan Boddez on What if you wanted to use Jetpack’s social menu feature and add links to your Mastodon and Pixelfed profiles—platforms Jetpack’s social menu doesn’t currently support—and not have them accompanied by an ugly, generic anchor icon? Continue reading Extend Jetpack’s SVG Icons →
Jan Boddez on While this blog doesn’t and likely never will support comments, I’ve recently implemented some support for incoming webmentions. Continue reading Comments and Webmentions →
Jan Boddez on I know it’s not new, but this teaser for Stranger Things 3 is simply darn cool. Continue reading Starcourt Mall →
Jan Boddez on Create better URLs for (existing) custom taxonomies, and work around clashing URL rewrite rules. Continue reading Rewrite Jetpack’s Custom Taxonomies →
Jan Boddez on While it is perfectly possible to disable caching for URLs that contain a query string, such routes may still get served a previously cached page. We need to not only prevent URLs containing a query string from being cached, but also prevent serving a cached page. Luckily, doing so is easy enough! Continue reading Fix Pagination when Using Laravel Page Cache →
Jan Boddez on The veer towards code-free website customization presents a huge improvement for developers, claims Elementor CMO Ben Pines. I kind of disagree. Continue reading Code-Free Web ‘Development’ →
Jan Boddez on On owning his own content, Tim writes: Instead of posting to Twitter directly, I want to use my site as the hub for that content and let Twitter feed off of that. Of note as well: the great Jeremy Keith explains how his personal site interacts with the rest of the web. Continue reading Owning My Own Content →