Jose M Castaneda

Category: Code

  • Slow week

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    This week I focused more on the free support forums. This was in part because I took a small break from reading about Docker Compose and setting up my local environment on Ubuntu. It was cool to see the environment get built with a simple command. I think the biggest hurdle I encountered was I…

  • Baby steps

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    For the last year, I’ve learned some JavaScript and a few more things about PHP. That’s great. The only thing is that I don’t feel like I have expanded that skill set just yet. I think a lot of that is because I never really had a personal project to test things out. I began…

  • Weekly updates again

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    Okay, I haven’t done weekly updates in quite some time. I was somewhat consistent for a while but then it just kind of stopped for some time. Things happen, right? This time around, I am thinking of doing my updates on Friday nights. This way I can at least be somewhat consistent and plan ahead…

  • Learning Git

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    How do I start start this off? I’ve been using Git for several years. I actually had to look to see when I opened my GitHub account. I opened the account in 2012 just a few months after I began contributing to the WordPress forums. When I first began using WordPress I had no prior…

  • Random issues

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    The other day I encountered something that was fun to solve. It was also a little frustrating because I couldn’t completely replicate on my local install. It had to do with using a mobile device and using a WebView. I am not an app developer but I do want to learn about that process. Maybe…

  • My Vim experiment

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    For the last couple of weeks – I lost track honestly – I have been using Vim as my editor. I do this when I’m not working. I don’t want it get in the way. So, I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading the docs. Like reading as much of the docs as I…

  • Weekend updates

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    I know it has been quite some time since I posted anything on here and I'm hoping to change that. The last time I posted anything was back in June and that was rather short lived as well. With Gutenberg getting frequent updates this could be a fun little thing and experiment for my weekends.…

  • A metabox for your layout options

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    It’s no surprise I can be vocal when I am reviewing a theme. Many know that I’ll spurt out what I end up seeing in a lot of themes. There is one thing that really does drive me crazy though and that is when people copy and paste code to their theme without actually knowing…

  • My tour of creating a PHPCodeSniffer Standard

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    It’s no surprise I like to learn new things. I also like to read things when I can. Okay, a lot of the time I skim through things but I make an effort to learn from it. The last couple of weeks I’ve looked at working with the PHPCodeSniffer. I installed it and never really…

  • WordPress and MediaElement styles

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    Okay, this is more of an experiment I was running because I was reached out by a friend about a theme question. This actually got me thinking about the shortcodes. The audio and video ones in particular. The reason is that when you use the [audio] shortcode WordPress will use MediaElementJS and enqueue both the JavaScript…