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Formatting A 12 Character DateTime Value

January 5, 2019

Cameron Jones

I have been working with an API recently that was giving me dates in a format that was twelve character string made up of just numbers. My initial thoughts were that it might be a Unix timestamp, but they were too long. I also knew what some of the sample dates needed to equate to,…

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Looking Back At 2018

January 3, 2019

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General

Well that’s another year about to come to an end. It went way too quickly don’t you think? It was definitely a challenging year for me, but there were still several highlights that I took out from 2018. 2018 In Review Premium plugins go live I finally have released my first premium WordPress plugin. Social…

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Guest Appearance On The Hallway Chats Podcast

December 6, 2018

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Podcasts, Speaking Engagements, WordPress

I was recently interviewed on the Hallway Chats podcast where I opened up about my journey into the WordPress community and how I define success in my life.

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How To Move The Custom Menu Item Classes To The Anchor Element

December 4, 2018

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Developer Tutorials, WordPress

Do you need your custom WordPress menu classes to be applied to the link anchor instead of the list item? With less than 20 lines of code you can make this happen without a custom menu walker!

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Enabling Jetpack’s Cookie Notice On A Theme Without Widget Areas

November 25, 2018

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WordPress

Jetpack’s Cookies & Consent Banner is a widget, even though it doesn’t display in a widget area. If your theme doesn’t have any widget areas this makes it impossible to add the cookie banner until you follow this handy guide

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Let’s Take A Very Serious Look At Gutenberg

November 19, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Gutenberg, WordPress

Gutenberg is the controversial new block editor for WordPress coming in version 5.0. While I believe it’s a great step forward, towards the future, there are a number of issues around the project that really need to be addressed.

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What Remote Working Means To Me

November 13, 2018

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Human Resources

Today marks a whole year since I joined Line26 as a WordPress developer. One of the major benefits of working here is that they would accomodate me working from home on a consistent basis. Considering that I’m travelling so far to work every day, being able to work remotely makes a massive difference to my life….

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Streamlining Your Template Structures When Building Themes

November 12, 2018

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Speaking Engagements, WordPress

Last week I was honoured to speak at the WordPress Brisbane meetup about rethinking our approach to the template hierarchy when building themes.

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Wrapup From WordCamp Brisbane 2018

November 6, 2018

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WordCamp, WordPress

Just last month I attended WordCamp Brisbane 2018. It was the third WordCamp in Brisbane in the past four years, and my sixth WordCamp. While it was an exhausting weekend it was without a doubt one of the best WordCamps I’ve been to. Most videos have already been uploaded to YouTube, so if you missed…

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