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  • Thank You WordPress

    WordPress version 1.5, named Strayhorn after the pianist Billy Strayhorn because “we thought he was perfect to represent the power and elegance of this release” was released February 17th, 2002. That seems to hold true with the upgrades that 1.5 brought users and developers, like the addition of Pages, additional templates and site customization, comment…

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  • 5 Things I’ve learned building my first blocks for Gutenberg

    Over the last few months I’ve watched as Gutenberg has been developed, silently taking notes, watching for patterns and possible areas to excel in. Then I found that the domain Pillar.Press was available and it snapped me into action. You see, for about 6 months I’ve had the name Pillar saved as a name idea…

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  • ? hue.js

    I forked a color picker for WordPress I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t there a color picker in WordPress already? Yeah … ? Why a color picker for WordPress? Technically, the hue.js color picker works independently of WordPress, so it’s not a color picker for WordPress at all. But to understand “why a color picker…

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  • Set Featured Images Programmatically in WordPress

    Recently, I found myself needing to auto-set 300+ featured images for a customers WooCommerce store. After the initial panic phased itself out, I took a couple of deep breathes and realized I’ve done a few kinda-sorta similar things with custom functions in the past. After a few hours of hacking the code up and reformatting…

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  • WP Dispensary: 2 years after the launch

    Over the last two years, the WP Dispensary WordPress plugin has changed my entire life. In these last two years, WP Dispensary has gone from being just a “thing” I built to a thing that powers hundreds of websites for cannabis businesses around the world. It’s also become my full time job, giving me the…

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