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Why WordPress’ Diminishing Market Share Shouldn’t Come As A Surprise

May 12, 2022

Cameron Jones

As highlighted by Joost de Valk and WP Tavern, WordPress’ market share has first stagnated and now fallen since the start of the year. Considering how long WordPress has enjoyed consistent growth, some people will be rightly surprised and/or concerned about what that means for WordPress. Here’s my hot take on why it shouldn’t be…

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How To Prevent var_dump From Being Truncated When Using Local By Flywheel

April 8, 2022

Cameron Jones

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Local by Flywheel, WordPress

PHP’s var_dump is one of the most handy functions around, allowing you to see any sort of data in a practically human readable format. If you’re like me and do a lot of work with external APIs, it’s indispensable when it comes to figuring out the type of data your responses are. Unfortunately if you…

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How To Get The Excerpt By Post ID

October 25, 2021

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WordPress

Most WordPress templating functions are available in two formats, one to echo and one to return. These are normally in the form of the_xxx() to display, and get_the_xxx() to return. Some examples of this are: Post title: the_title() and get_the_title() Post thumbnail: the_post_thumbnail() and get_the_post_thumbnail() Aside from differing in returning or displaying the response, the…

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WordFest Live Is Back, And So Am I

June 11, 2021

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Speaking Engagements, WordPress

Following the successful event in January, WordFest Live is happening again on July 23. To make that news even better, I’ll be speaking at this event as well. At the last edition I presented “WordPress Sucks!“, a breakdown of some of the issues WordPress has both as software and in the community and ecosystem, which…

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Looking For A Free LastPass Alternative? Try Bitwarden

February 17, 2021

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Security

If you’re like me, you woke up today to the news that LastPass will be crippling their free tier by limiting it’s use to just one type of device. If you’re also like me, the first you heard about it was discussions on social media and not from the company itself. While this has only…

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I’m Speaking At WordFest Live 2021

January 9, 2021

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Speaking Engagements, WordPress

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at WordFest Live on January 21st, 2021. Having not been to a WordCamp for over a year due to COVID-19, I’m super excited to be back speaking on stage again, even if it is only virtually. WordFest Live is a continuous 24 hour event with speakers presenting…

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How To Remove The Uncategorised Category From WordPress And WooCommerce

September 28, 2020

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Developer Tutorials, WooCommerce, WordPress

Out of the box, WordPress includes a default category for posts called “Uncategorized”. It not only looks unprofessional, it’s largely unnecessary. While you can rename it to something more suitable, I tend to use “General”, you can’t delete it. At least, not without a bit of code. The first thing we’ll want to do is…

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