This is my supporting documentation for the #PressEd WordPress conference that I’ll be doing via Twitter on Thursday. The Topic Given I’ve been playing around in WordPress since what feels like the dawn of time, I’ve heard lots of people say lots of things about it. I’ve heard it’s too complex. I’ve heard it’s too […]
Month: March 2018
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-03-18
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-03-11
Candace Jean Andersen on Twitter: “Hey Twitter I’m on a mission: The woman in this photo was an attendee at a 1971 International Conference on Biology of Whales. She is the only woman, & the only one captioned “not identified” in the article I found the p Pretty wild to watch this kind of research […]
H5P Default Dynamic Sizing
If you’re running the H5P plugin in WordPress, you might notice that there’s an advanced settings option when you go to embed it. If you click on that you’ll see an additional script to add to enable dynamic sizing of embedded H5P content. I wanted that but that option doesn’t make much sense in our […]
Photography – #164
Starbucks mermaid A post shared by @ twwoodward on Mar 8, 2018 at 4:46pm PST #subgenius A post shared by @ twwoodward on Mar 11, 2018 at 12:03pm PDT […]
Follow the Cursor Arrows in Javascript
Matt came up with a really interesting visual idea where arrows follow the cursor. He found this codepen example which was pretty close to what he envisioned (only with pill shapes). The problem was that this version used Babel, jQuery, and Underscore. That’s good if you know all those pieces but less good if you […]
WordPress Avoid Running save_post Functions on Trashed Posts
This may be one of those things that everyone knows but it was new to me. I’m also duplicating the information I found in the StackOverflow post because I think it’s good to have information in multiple places where it might be found by other people. Additionally, writing the post makes it easy for me […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-03-04
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Google Script – Plain Text
Google Sheets often thinks it’s smarter than you. That’s helpful at times and irritating at other times.1 The Google Form to Sheets path is one place where that can come up repeatedly and in ways that are hard to see. For instance, if you use the Time entry on forms, Google Sheets tries to coerce […]
jQuery & the WordPress Rest API – 1st Image as Background
Ordinarily it’s pretty easy to get the featured image from the WordPress API. You just have to remember to add the _embed element like so https://bionicteaching.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?_embed But maybe there’s some reason you don’t want to set the featured image but want to get the first image from the body of the post. This chunk of […]
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