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WordCamp Europe 2023 Wrapup

July 3, 2023

Cameron Jones

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WordCamp, WordPress

I recently spent a whirlwind weekend in Athens for WordCamp Europe 2023. For much of the last 3-4 years I wasn’t sure if I would even get to attend a WordCamp again. The WordPress community in Australia has been very slow to recover from COVID, so this was not only my first WordCamp outside of…

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Why I’m Not Sold On ‘Five For The Future’

August 11, 2022

Cameron Jones

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WordPress

There has been a concerted effort to promote WordPress’ “Five For The Future” initiative in recent times. According to WordPress.org: Five for the Future encourages organizations to contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development. Lately however, it’s been less “encouraging” and more “demanding” and slander campaigns against those who don’t hit that mark….

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How To Get The Excerpt By Post ID

October 25, 2021

Cameron Jones

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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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