Last week, late on Friday afternoon, we decided to cancel our meetup. Given the meetup was on the following Wednesday it was a big ask to figure out how we would deliver something under the current circumstances. The current landscape is changing rapidly and with a growing number of people now working remotely it only […]
COVID-19 Conceptal Community Support Website using WordPress
Given the Covid-19 outbreak, I wanted to do something for the community using WordPress. With the concept of isolation upon us, I wondered if I could build something that might help those going into isolation and those who can help others in isolation in their local area. The idea is that anyone in the UK […]
WooCommerce how to make a user exempt from tax charges
I’ve been working on a WooCommerce project recently, the client asked if I could isolate certain users who would need to be exempt from being charged any tax or VAT on products sold through their WooCommerce shop. This particular shop was behind the standard WordPress login so it was simply a case of: adding a […]
MacOS, Homebrew, PHP, Valet, MySQL
As well as a couple of private projects and SLA work, I work under contract for a handful of clients, most of my working days are pre-planned spent developing, testing and deploying code. This means I need a development stack that is reliable, quick to get up and running and is not going to burden […]
A few ways to create a WordPress Plugin
There are many ways to create a WordPress Plugin and it all depends on the requirements of the plugin that defines how complex the steps need to be, here are a few ways I create plugins for my projects. Simple WordPress Plugin For the most basic and simple plugin that only changes or adds the […]
Debugging with Xdebug & Visual Studio Code
In no way is this meant to be a tutorial, more of a resource of how I managed to set this up. If it’s useful to others then that makes me happy 🙂 This setup assumes you are running Valet and have PHP running with Xdebug on a Mac. There are smarter people than I […]
I have been struggling with tech this week!
I’ve recently changed my local development setup and I’ll be honest it’s been a learning curve! I’ve had a lot of support from the community though and I’m so grateful for the time given by those who’ve chipped in to lend a hand. Especially those on Slack and in the UK WP Community, changing things […]
Something I’ve discovered using Valet, monitoring Nginx Logs and changing Nginx Config settings
I’ve recently moved over to using Valet for local development, it had its ups and downs and has been a bit of a learning curve as I’m used to using Apache not Nginx as a web server. I’m really documenting this as my own handbook but if others can benefit from it then so be […]
The HTML markup & CSS behind the logo…
Following on from my previous post about the thinking behind the logo, I now want to explain how I translated this for use on the web, if it’s useful to anyone then my work is done 🙂 If you think it can be done better then feel free to leave a comment, it’s always interesting […]
The thinking behind the logo
Creating a new blog means creating a new brand but I’m not thinking about creating something emotive here, it’s just me so I wanted to design something stylish and geometric around my name “Elliott Richmond”. Having a background in design and now in recent years a big focus on WordPress development, particularly building bespoke plugins, […]