Screaming Code Monkey

So this issue was a real thumper. I’m new to Gatsby, GraphQL and not as clued with the WP Rest API, so debugging this was some journey. Which ended with; Gatsby will not compile if your try to fetch featured_media from your posts IF you have a single post without a features_image. Possible solutions (If…

When you need to keep broken images on your dev environment down to a minimum. Use this htaccess hack to redirect to production.

Dear Diary, I’m not too sure why I’m writing this. I do know why I am writing this, I’m writing this to get better at writing. I sit in front of a computer day in and day out typing away and yet am starting to find my actual written communication has started to suffer. What…

So I just started using WPML CMS on a site with a large number of custom post types. Everything was going fine, and the CMS editors were loving the ease of use. Things were going smoothly until conflicting slugs started to happen. I’ll give you an example we had a page : example.com/my-new-thing which we…

I gave a short introduction to Git and WordPress talk at the June 2017 WordPress Wellington Meetup.

This was a lightning talk I gave to Wellington WordPress Meetup May 2017 introducing the WP-CLI tool.

Some days I ask this question over and over again. Why do I code? WHY?! Frustrated over old unmaintained applications. Systems that haemorrhage technical debt plague the internet. If you are a developer you will end up inheriting a number of these lost causes. Hopes and dreams setup by ambitious developers and designers laid to rest on…