If you’ve ever had to use Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) in WordPress then you’d be aware that when you add a new ACF field to a post or custom post type and set a default value then that value isn’t actually saved until a post is published or updated. This can be an issue if… read more
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term “Imposter Syndrome“, this is it in a nutshell: Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome) is a concept describing high-achieving individuals who are marked by an inability to internalise their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud”. There… read more
This afternoon I sent Mum an SMS: Wow. First Brexit and now Trump! Sorry for the swearing that’s about to follow but what the fuck is wrong with people these days?!?!?! I look forward to having a good rant to you and Dad tomorrow night. Love Foz. Mum replied and said Dad thought about ‘Don Maclean –… read more
In an effort to start “owning my own data”, I’ve decided I should start taking some of the stuff I’ve posted on Facebook in the past and adding it to my own site so I’ll “own” it forever more. Whilst I’ve been doing that I found something I wrote a few years ago. It was a… read more
I’m a relatively new Mac user and one of the things that was really annoying me was how slow the cursor was in Terminal. Matt from Prospress gave me a tip that Brent Shepherd gave him. Bump up your Key Repeat to Fast and Delay Until Repeat to Short in your Keyboard settings: Another terminal tip… read more
In my last post I shared how I lost my Grunt virginity and how I used 10up’s repository to dive into Grunt to learn about how Grunt functions. The 10up repo that Eric contributed to got me up to speed very quickly. I also lent a hand to convince Paul Gibb’s to add some Grunt “magic” to… read more
I’ve been meaning to tap out a little blog post on how I got up and running with Grunt on my Windows 8 laptop. I’d been wanting to find a spare 30 minutes to give Grunt a whirl ever since I saw Eric Mann’s talk on Automated WordPress Development at WCSF (which I’ve embedded at… read more
I’ve still got some “legacy” client sites that run on WAMP on my local machine. I was trying to do some updates to some of their sites and when I started doing some testing on Internet Exploder…oops I mean Explorer of course, and WAMP was locking up and it was really starting to bug me.… read more
