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  • WP Core Development with Local Lightning

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    Firstly, this is only meant as a how I do it. I’m using MacOS. core.git.wordpress.org It is based on using git://core.git.wordpress.org/. This would be similar to WP core development on a regular install using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin set for bleeding edge nightlies. Create symlink of wp-config.php into /public The following can be used…

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  • Bringing WordPress Core to PHP 5.6 and Beyond

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    In the 2018 State of the Word, Matt told us the plan was to move the minimum PHP version for WordPress Core to 5.6 in April 2019 and to PHP 7 in December 2019. I won’t discuss the irony of WordPress 5.2 being the update that kills support for PHP 5.2, but the coincidence is…

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  • WordPress Debugging

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    It is inevitable. At some point when running a WordPress site you will have a conflict, an error, or worst case – a PHP Fatal leading to a WSOD (White Screen of Death). My goal is to provide the means with which you should be able to view and hopefully understand, to some degree, the…

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  • WordCamp LAX 2015

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    I’ll have to spiff this up a bit later, but here are my slides from my talk @WordCampLAX 2015. And you can watch me on @WordPressTV

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  • GitHub Updater & GitLab

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    GitLab Support I’ve finally been able to add support for GitLab in the GitHub Updater v4.5.0. Additionally, support for GitLab CE and GitLab Enterprise are also included. All that’s required is an additional header with the base URI for the GitLab server. As an example, GitLab CE: https://gitlab.example.com or GitLab Enterprise: https://gitlab.example.com. Extras for GitHub…

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  • Add Custom Header Images

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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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