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A blog about photography and other things
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How to easily use Twig templates in your WordPress plugin

6 August 202024 March 2023

This post explains how to easily set up the Twig templating system in your custom WordPress plugins.

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Development

How to easily set up Vagrant to develop on WordPress

30 July 20201 March 2023

This post discusses the use of Vagrant and specifically VVV for setting up a WordPress development environment quickly

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Development

Using Composer to simplify WordPress dependencies

19 July 2020

In this post I’m going to explain how to use the Composer dependency manager in your Wordpress plugins

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Development

A Useful Advanced Custom Fields Conditional Logic trick.

7 June 20201 March 2023

A useful trick to allow Advanced Custom Fields Conditional Logic to use data from outside the form data.

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Simple and safe live code deploy using Git

10 May 2020

A Post explaining a simple and safe git deployment technique for uploading code changes to a live WordPress site

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Big changes coming to the Photoblog
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Big Changes coming to the Photoblog

1 March 202027 February 2023

A post just updating any regular readers of this blog of big changes coming

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Reviews

Easy Ender 3 Pro assembly and first print

15 February 20201 April 2023

This post looks again at the Ender 3 Pro 3D printer and covers the assembly, some small issues I found and first print I produced.

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Google Analytics plugin

15 February 2020

A lesson in how to take a great free google analytics plugin and instantly destroy its credibility

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Ender 3 Pro 3d Printer Kit - Top tray of parts
Reviews

Ender 3 pro 3d printer first look

8 February 202027 February 2023

This post is a departure from my normal photography related posts and instead takes an initial look at the Ender 3 pro 3D printer which I recently acquired.

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Development

Using PHP Traits in WordPress development

31 December 2019

This article is going to discuss, in fairly high level terms, PHP Traits and how you can use them to help your wordpress development.

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Blogging

Exciting new vintage home movies site

29 December 201927 February 2023

This is a very short post just to publicise a new sister site to found-film which I’ve recently set up.

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