First, let’s get one thing straight: WordPress is built on PHP. The Gutenberg/Block Editor team may love React more than anyone else outside of Facebook, but ultimately WordPress is still built on PHP, and the WordPress developer community is built … Continue reading →

Throughout my (now quite long) career as a web developer, I have had many ups and downs. But I have never had as many stomach aches as I have in the last year, trying to wrap my brain around a … Continue reading →

(If you want to get right to the point, a full code example is provided at the bottom of this post.) I’m not a Bootstrap expert. During most of its evolution, I’ve mostly ignored it in favor of rolling my … Continue reading →

Regular readers of this blog, if such exist, may have noticed that one of the three (!) posts I published yesterday has gone missing. I unpublished it this morning, as I further contemplate the future of WordPress, and whether or … Continue reading →

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 me. Two things that really bother me: page builder plugins/themes, and mediocre hosting providers. Why … Continue reading →