Author: Jacob Martella
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How to Add Alternative Text to Your Photos on Social Media
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Continue Reading: How to Add Alternative Text to Your Photos on Social MediaSocial media is a great place to share your photos. But in our rush to share our cool photos, we very often miss one crucial step: adding alternative text. So here’s how to add alt text to your photos on social media.
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Redesigning My Personal Website
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Continue Reading: Redesigning My Personal WebsiteAs a web designer and developer, there’s always a temptation to redesign your personal website. So, since it’s been over a year since I last redesigned this site, I think it’s time to redo this website again. Here’s the plan for the redesign.
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A Look Back at 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025
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Continue Reading: A Look Back at 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025Welcome to 2025! It’s that time of the year when people reflect on what happened in the past year and plan out what they hope to accomplish in the next year. So here’s what I’m hoping to accomplish this year.
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Sports You Should Watch During the 2024 Summer Olympics
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Continue Reading: Sports You Should Watch During the 2024 Summer OlympicsThe Summer Olympics are finally here. If you want to watch something other than the generic sports NBC thinks you want to watch, here are other sports to check out during the 2024 games.
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My Experience with Creating an Onboarding Sequence for the Crosswinds Framework
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Continue Reading: My Experience with Creating an Onboarding Sequence for the Crosswinds FrameworkIn addition to creating a new settings screen, the latest release of the Crosswinds Framework also saw an onboarding sequence added for anyone who is using the Crosswinds Blocks plugin and one of the Crosswinds Framework themes. Here’s how I built the Crosswinds Framework Onboarding Wizard.
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How I Created the New Crosswinds Framework Settings Screen
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Continue Reading: How I Created the New Crosswinds Framework Settings ScreenThe start of May brought the version 1.2 release of the Crosswinds Blocks plugin and with it came a new settings screen. Here’s how I was able to build the new settings screen using React.
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How I Built It: Search Results Block
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Continue Reading: How I Built It: Search Results BlockWordPress does a lot of great things. But handling search results based on post types out of the box is definitely not one of them. So here’s how I built two blocks in the Crosswinds Blocks plugin to make it better.
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Why I Use GitLab over GitHub
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Continue Reading: Why I Use GitLab over GitHubTalking about the tools a web developer uses to create projects can sometimes lead to a bit of a flame war. So here’s why I’ve chosen to use GitLab over GitHub for version control.
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How I Built It: Search Filters Block
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Continue Reading: How I Built It: Search Filters BlockThe WordPress core search functionality is good, but it really could be better. So for the Crosswindds Framework 1.1 update, I added in a set of search filters blocks to make it better.
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How I Built It: Related Posts Block
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Continue Reading: How I Built It: Related Posts BlockRelated posts are a great way to make sure that people stay on your website longer. And they are something I wanted to include in the Crosswinds Blocks plugin. Here’s how I built that block.