Doing It Wrong™: A Haiku

No PHP in
Gutenberg templates makes me
Very, very sad

10 May 2023

The personal blog of Minneapolis-based freelance web developer and independent musician Scott Anderson @room34.

You can find Scott's music — as Room 34 — on YouTube and Bandcamp, and he also plays bass with 32nd Street Jazz, South High Community Band and Lake Country Jazz Collective.

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Ways the WordPress website shoots itself in the foot

2022
Even though I genuinely love WordPress, and have literally built the last decade of my career around it, there are plenty of things that bother…
Make Advanced Custom Fields smarter about handling date fields

2015
I love Advanced Custom Fields almost as much as I love WordPress itself. But that’s not to say it doesn’t have its problems. Most are…
On products, services, and the trouble with Twitter

2012
Much of the buzz this week among online geek types has been the latest step in the gradually unfolding revelation of exactly where Twitter (the…
Wow, I thought the spike in traffic might last a little bit longer

2008
Last week I was excited by the prospect of increased traffic here when I discovered that a New York Times blog had linked to a…
Conservative talk radio? Biased??? No way!

2008
File this under “News of the Obvious,” but it’s still interesting to read an insider’s tale of what goes on behind the scenes in conservative…
Product placement? Fine, but then can you get rid of commercial breaks?

2006
Product placement is as old as TV itself, and if anything it’s less insidious now than it was in the early days of television. But…

Doing It Wrong™: A Haiku

10 May 2023
No PHP in Gutenberg templates makes me Very, very sad
More Gutenberg Doing It Wrong™: making Navigation blocks editable… sort of

10 May 2023
By this point I have more-or-less embraced Gutenberg, a.k.a. the WordPress Block Editor. But I have not embraced Full Site Editing, a.k.a. the Site Editor,…
Gutenberg: How is this better?

10 May 2022
Every time I run into another weird, seemingly illogical quirk of the process of building a WordPress theme with Block Editor (a.k.a. “Gutenberg”) support, I…
Bad data

10 May 2010
I apologize in advance if my argument here is less cogent than it could be: I’m under extreme time constraints to crank out this post.…
Geek test…

10 May 2006
If you think this is funny, you are one. A guy I know sent this to me… apparently it’s someone’s signature on Slashdot: Recursive: Adj.…
Pointless? Probably. Cool? Maybe.

10 May 2004
I’ve just added a new panel to the right side of The Home Page (and any other page that happens to use the same right…

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