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Surely you can’t be serious: Does Gutenberg REALLY do this???

3 May 2023

I’m building a pair of new WordPress sites for a client, using a base block theme I created. My plan going in was to create two child themes, one for each site. But after I finished the first site, I … Continue reading →

More Gutenberg madness (“This block has encountered an error and cannot be previewed”)

25 April 2023

The WordPress Gutenberg project (a.k.a. the Block Editor) is supposed to make building WordPress sites faster and… well… once you get the hang of it, that often is the case. Recently I’ve actually marveled at how quickly it has allowed … Continue reading →

Quick CSS fix for WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) link hover color issue

27 January 2023

The WordPress Block Editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg) makes it easy to set the text, background, and link colors on any block. But links can and often do have more than one color. And there’s no option here for setting the hover … Continue reading →

This is the kind of thing that I find maddening about Gutenberg

9 December 2022

First off, if you are the regular reader of this blog, you are painfully aware of how much I am waffling on rejecting or embracing Gutenberg (a.k.a. the WordPress Block Editor). There are things I genuinely do like about it, … Continue reading →

The more I use Gutenberg (the WordPress Block Editor), the more I simultaneously like and dislike it

30 November 2022

Where do even I begin with Gutenberg, a.k.a. the Block Editor? Well, I don’t really need to “begin” with it, because I’ve been posting about my various frustrations with it for over 5 years now. (This isn’t even the first … Continue reading →

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


Scott is the sole proprietor of
Room 34 Creative Services, and creator of ICS Calendar, No Nonsense, On This Day and other WordPress plugins.

You can find Scott's music — as Room 34 — on YouTube, Bandcamp, and all major streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify. He also plays bass with 32nd Street Jazz, South High Community Band and Lake Country Jazz Collective.

On This Day

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    2020
    This is one of those fixes where it is probably worth me explaining the very specific use case I needed it for first, to serve…
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    2013
    No longwinded backstory in this post. I’m just posting this here so I can remember it if I ever have to install again, since I…
  • Sembei!
    2010
    Yes, from now on all of my blog posts will have one-word titles, ending in an exclamation mark. But seriously… a couple months back I…
  • I have not formerly addressed this formally
    2009
    I’m a geek. Let’s get that straight. I’m not a nerd. Geeks are people who tend to be obsessive over a particular set of arcane…
  • The merits of a fresh start
    2008
    It’s hard to start over. Make a clean break. Go back to the very beginning and build things from the ground up. I experience it…

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