WordPress

Details of an updated WordPress plugin to parse WordPress plugin readme files and display the contents as HTML.

The Blipper Widget readme file.

I list as many WordPress block markup tags as possible.

I try to make sense of how to create WordPress blocks programatically.

WordPress errors I have come across, along with their solutions.

Everything on the site about WordPress appears here.

The home page of the Panda-Puss theme for WordPress by Pandammonium.

A brief description of WP Blimporter.

About the Blipper Widget plugin for WordPress.

My WordPress development.

I add caching to the Blipper Widget plugin to make its loading faster and to reduce the number of hits on the Blipfoto server to reduce the likelihood of hitting the rate limit.

I update an existing WordPress plugin to parse WordPress plugin readme files and display the contents as HTML.

Here’s what’s new in Blipper Widget 1.2.0.

I update Blipper Widget to indicate how it works with WP 6.0.1.

WordPress 6.0 improves the behaviour when no results are found.

I find the official WordPress documentation for the core blocks.

I finally find some answers to my block markup questions.

I work out how to register menu locations for themes, which seems pointless, actually.

The lack of conditional logic in HTML files is causing problems. This problem doesn’t exist with PHP files.

I realise that semantic classes are not compatible with the Site Editor’s settings.

I talk briefly about WordPress block theme parts and compare them to the classic theme equivalent.

I discover how to add a navigation block to a WordPress block theme. I note some of the markup that can be used with such blocks.

I find out how to add classes to WordPress blocks without breaking the WordPress editor.

There are two types of WordPress block template markup, just as there are two types of HTML tags. I explain.

I have an idea for helping with WordPress block templates: an auto-completion package for Sublime Text.

I look for documentation to help with creating my WordPress block theme Panda-Puss.

I grumble about WordPress blocks – again.

I finally get down to writing code for my WP Panda-Puss theme. It’s confusing.

I use my new Pandammonium logo as a base for my new Blipper Widget logo.

I use my new Pandammonium logo as a base for my new Panda-Puss logo.

I release Blipper Widget 1.1.2, but compatibility has only been fully tested up to WP 5.7.

I change the type of my Panda-Puss theme from a traditional one to a new-fangled block theme.

I am thwarted yet again by WordPress, but not for long!

I see a terrible new-to-me error and think it will be awful to fix; but it’s even simpler than the internet says it is.

I notice this site looks a bit odd. What’s going on?

My website inexplicably goes weird, but I more-or-less fix it.

I want to use SCSS, so I have to install Sass.

I update WordPress and find its new block widgets have broken my site. Then I fix it – temporarily.

I announce the creation of a new WordPress theme I’m working on.

I start learning how to write a WordPress theme.

I release Blipper Widget 0.0.9.

I fix the error in establishing a database connection.

Me and my website have database woes. Sorry about that.

Blipper Widget 0.0.7 is released.

Blipper Widget 0.0.6 is released.

Blipper Widget is now available for your installing pleasure from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

WordPress approve Blipper Widget. On to the next step.

I submit Blipper Widget for review.

I prepare Blipper Widget for submission to the WordPress Plugin Repository.

I fix Blipper Widget, hurrah.

WP Blipper Widget becomes Blipper Widget… and breaks.

The images are back in my blog posts.

I thought it would be easy to fix the missing images on my blog, but it isn’t.

I separate the options into those that work behind the scenes and those that affect the appearance of the widget.

WP Blipper Widget is now live on this site!

Digital Ocean help me find and fix the error that killed my plugin — oh, happy day.

WP Blipper Widget has technical problems on Digital Ocean. Is it related to PHP?

WP Blipper Widget update: scrap the over-complicated boilerplate WP plugin; start from scratch with one file.

Setting up the settings in my WP Blipper plugin.

Developing a WP plugin using a boilerplate plugin.

Setting up my environment for my WordPress plugin development.

Why I’m developing a plugin to connect Blipfoto to WordPress.

If you recall, I broke my site really badly in January, and it was down for a month till February. This is what happened.

I learn how to do something complicated-looking in git that’s actually pretty straightforward.

I work out how to register menu locations for themes, which seems pointless, actually.

I use my new Pandammonium logo as a base for my new Blipper Widget logo.

I use my new Pandammonium logo as a base for my new Panda-Puss logo.

I tire of MAMP and set up Apache, MySQL and PHP directly on my computer.

I add a copy button to keyboard commands for your convenience.

I make pandammonium.org faster.

I want to use SCSS, so I have to install Sass.