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    Digital Shopfront, Web Development

    Looking at the Digital Shopfront CMS Repository

    Jacob Martella

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    May 1, 2025

    As work continues on creating Digital Shopfront CMS, I wanted to take a moment to explain the repository structure. So let’s dive into why I chose GitLab over GitHub and how the project is set up.

    Continue Reading: Looking at the Digital Shopfront CMS Repository
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    Laravel, Web Development

    What I’ve Learned with Laravel After a Few Months

    Jacob Martella

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    April 3, 2025

    Because of *gestures wildly* everything going on in the WordPress landscape, I’ve started taking a look at the web development world outside of WordPress. And I think I’ve fallen in love with Laravel. It’s reignited my passion for web development and reminded me of why I got into web dev in the first place.

    Continue Reading: What I’ve Learned with Laravel After a Few Months
  • a person with a shirt with the WordPress "W" logo on it at a standing desk typing on a keyboard
    WordPress

    Why I’m Leaving WordPress

    Jacob Martella

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    March 27, 2025

    This is a blog post that’s honestly a half-year in the making and probably a couple of months too late, but here it goes anyway. I’m leaving WordPress. Well … mostly leaving WordPress, but we’ll get to the last surviving thread of WP connectivity at the end of this post. But yeah, with all of…

    Continue Reading: Why I’m Leaving WordPress
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    Laravel, Web Development

    Introducing Digital Shopfront Content Management System

    Jacob Martella

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    March 20, 2025

    I’m building a new content management system. What started out as sort of a crazy idea I had while driving to the Great Smoky Mountains last fall is starting to turn into a real thing. Here’s what I’m planning with Digital Shopfront CMS.

    Continue Reading: Introducing Digital Shopfront Content Management System
  • a person taking a photo of a butterfly on a flower with a DSLR camera
    Accessibility, Web Development

    How to Add Alternative Text to Your Photos on Social Media

    Jacob Martella

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    March 13, 2025

    Social 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.

    Continue Reading: How to Add Alternative Text to Your Photos on Social Media
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    Web Development

    Redesigning My Personal Website

    Jacob Martella

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    March 6, 2025

    As 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.

    Continue Reading: Redesigning My Personal Website
  • a person writing a to do list in a journal
    Life

    A Look Back at 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025

    Jacob Martella

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    January 2, 2025

    Welcome 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.

    Continue Reading: A Look Back at 2024 and Looking Forward to 2025
  • The Olympic rings inside of the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Life, Olympics

    Sports You Should Watch During the 2024 Summer Olympics

    Jacob Martella

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    July 21, 2024

    The 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.

    Continue Reading: Sports You Should Watch During the 2024 Summer Olympics
  • an iMac displaying a screenshot of the install plugin screen of the Crosswinds Framework Onboarding Wizard
    Plugin Development, Web Development, WordPress

    My Experience with Creating an Onboarding Sequence for the Crosswinds Framework

    Jacob Martella

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    June 26, 2024

    In 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.

    Continue Reading: My Experience with Creating an Onboarding Sequence for the Crosswinds Framework
  • a MacBook sitting on a table showing the home screen for the Crosswinds Framework settings screen
    Plugin Development, Web Development, WordPress

    How I Created the New Crosswinds Framework Settings Screen

    Jacob Martella

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    June 19, 2024

    The 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.

    Continue Reading: How I Created the New Crosswinds Framework Settings Screen
  • a white iMac showing a screenshot of the blog posts search results on jacobmartella.com while sitting on a white desk in a white room
    Block Editor, Web Development, WordPress

    How I Built It: Search Results Block

    Jacob Martella

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    June 12, 2024

    WordPress 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.

    Continue Reading: How I Built It: Search Results Block
  • the GitLab homepage on an iMac sitting on a white desk in a white room
    Web Development

    Why I Use GitLab over GitHub

    Jacob Martella

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    May 1, 2024

    Talking 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.

    Continue Reading: Why I Use GitLab over GitHub
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