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I’ve been doing a lot of tweaking to GitHub Updater. The plugin now runs on the front-end and only for privileged users. This allows for a couple of things. It makes less overhead for the non-admin user. Second it allows for update services to do their thing. I’ve tested with several update services and iThemes…
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In Part 1, I tried to describe some of the why and a little of the how I’ve gotten to this point with GitHub Updater. In this point I’ll try to go into a bit about how the plugin works. The basic premise and design of GitHub Updater is to be very lightweight to both…
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In The Events Calendar the ability to add an event to your calendar via an iCalendar file is now in the core plugin. This used to be a feature only in the Events Calendar PRO plugin. Out of the box this works great for either Google Calendar or Apple’s Calendar. However, in Outlook, adding the…
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About 10 months ago I decided to scratch an itch. I was running 3 or 4 different WordPress websites, including this one. I was also playing around customizing these sites by creating some one-off plugins and child themes. At the time I was doing a lot of cowboy coding on my own domains. Mostly because…
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After using this plugin for quite a while I decided to refactor it and submit it to the WordPress Plugin repo. I figured maybe someone else might find it useful. What the plugin does is add all images that have been uploaded to a page titled The Headers to the header image array and allows…
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I’ve been running my own server for over 5 years now. It has been a great and sometimes frustrating experience. I think I’ve finally decided to let the pros do the server administration and just focus on the other stuff. The other stuff being coding, writing, and playing with technology. I’m looking into @Dreamhost. They…