Ben Word
@retlehs
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@rootswp 🌱 https://t.co/CGA5a9GPxP
Joined July 2007
I stopped using ACF years ago in favor of first-party WordPress field settings Here's a simple contact form builder page (w/ a block) built with @wordpress/components + renders a Laravel Blade template server side to preview what the form looks like exactly on the front-end
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Made a Faker package for Acorn that supports generating WooCommerce products and orders (along with posts w/ blocks, comments, featured images, etc) Always feels nice making WP-CLI commands with Laravel Artisan
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If all your blocks aren't using the Block API v3 then your editor won't be iframed (and the iframed editor is a huge DX improvement for editor styling)
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Building a WooCommerce site? Hybrid themes can pull off modern DX + UX without WC blocks or headless Use the Store API (not wc-ajax) for cart interactions
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Small WooCommerce admin UX improvement to show the payment gateway in the orders table
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Small UX improvement to our first-party WooCommerce review photos functionality (because who wants to use one of the bloated extensions?) to now show the photos directly in wp-admin's reviews screen
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Working on something that I've put off for a decade: a @rootswp marketplace I was looking at moving Radicle to https://t.co/KBnqnGHw2W since it's all the hype, but their GitHub access functionality is limited & they don't support WP plugins or Composer packages Built with
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Uses the `abraham/twitteroauth` library for connecting to a Twitter account and handling the tweets, which supports threads and uploading media Also built with WordPress UI components (modals, dataviews, etc) & powered by REST API endpoints
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Working on a WP plugin that shares posts to Twitter (will be adding other networks, too) with the post's featured image. Defaults to including the post title in the first tweet, and a link to the post in the 2nd tweet Next up, adding Claude to generate text from the post content
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Made a wp-admin page for showing registered Laravel routes in WordPress (via Acorn) Using @​wordpress/dataviews on the front-end
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The most cracked staff engs I know (in Tier 2 and Tier 3 tech companies) regularly do code reviews, PRs, and commits. Lead by example. 🫡 Top graph is work only contributions. Bottom graph is work + open source.
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🔥 We've dropped Vagrant support entirely in Trellis (along with VirtualBox/Parallels) in favor of Lima VMs New releases out: - Trellis v1.27.0 - Trellis CLI v1.15.0
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Recent blog posts Prefix namespaces in WordPress plugins to avoid conflicts WPackagist changelog action with stable version warnings Redis support comes to Trellis Zero downtime WordPress deployments...
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