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Thoughts, notes and things worth sharing.
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Tabs vs spaces: what actually matters
Tabs or spaces? A practical guide to indentation, project conventions, readability and keeping your editor and formatter in sync.
AI Search Has Arrived. Your Website Is Now Being Interviewed
AI search is changing how people find and trust businesses. A practical field note on GEO, AI visibility, websites, workflows and useful AI.
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Fix ACF PRO to output unfiltered HTML
Notes from 2024 on ACF's HTML escaping changes, with field-output examples and security cautions for allowing unfiltered HTML in selected fields.
Securing Your Website: Cloudways Vulnerability Scanner Alerts
A 2023 guide to understanding Cloudways vulnerability alerts, checking outdated plugins and testing updates on staging before changing a live site.
WooCommerce 6 Released
A December 2021 overview of WooCommerce 6.0, including block templates, product attribute filtering, rate-limit storage and the release changelog.
Off The Shelf vs Bespoke Wordpress themes
A comparison of off-the-shelf and bespoke WordPress themes, covering cost, design, performance, flexibility and future development.
Block Specific WooCommerce Spam Orders
The story behind a small WooCommerce plugin I created in 2020 to block a recurring pattern of spam orders.
Cache issues with Forwards and Back history in Safari
A 2019 debugging account of Safari's back-and-forward cache, using pagehide, pageshow and HTTPS to reset a page's interface.