Web Developer London
· 9 min read
Read about how I set up a Vercel account, created a basic Next.js app and connected it to this site's Wordpress Rest API.
· 5 min read
In part one I got the basis of the plugin in place. Now I actually made it usable and added features/docs that mean it could be installed anywhere
· 5 min read
The Google Maps API has the potential to cost money if you go over the fair use policy. But there is a great freebie alternative!
· 1 min read
I've been beavering away recently in the background to refresh my old website. So here it is!
· 5 min read
We fixed this in the room booking plugin. A fortnight later we walked straight into the identical problem in the events plugin without recognising it.
· 5 min read
Got a venue with a load of rooms that you hire out? How about a plugin to help with that?
· 5 min read
Find out how I handle dates and times in the plugin. Definitely needed some thought, in particular multi-date events.
· 4 min read
So I'd built most of the gubbins to handle events themselves, but now we needed a way to handle the event venues - in itself a pretty large chunk of work.
· 4 min read
There is no register_post_type('gig') anywhere in it — and once a type is created, its key can never change again. Both of those are deliberate.
· 4 min read
The off-the-shelf options either wanted to run the whole box office, or needed other plugins bolted on. Surely it can't be that hard to do it myself?!
· 6 min read
Loading a page into a popup without a library — the dialog element, the REST API and about thirty lines of JavaScript. A rewrite of a post from 2017, when it took rather more.
