These are some articles I saved for reference to read in more detail: Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack How Smashing Magazine Manages Content: Migration From WordPress To JAMstack
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To properly import media along with posts you need to do a work around with the import tool. WordPress out of the box expects that the media will be available on a live website and is unable to import from a local installation. This post gives the outline of what is needed: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/87395/import-media-to-online-wordpress-from-local-development More explicitly:
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This is a placeholder for my notes on using Lighthouse to optimize performance of WordPress sites. Tooling Lighthouse is a tool provided by Google to help site owners measure and improve performance. Here is a link to the documentation: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/ The code and documentation is open source and is available on github: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse Lighthouse CLI
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Jacob’s talk has been posted to YouTube Here’s the links he mentioned in his talk – -Repo: https://github.com/jacobarriola/gatsby-woocommerce-oc-wordpress-meetup – Blog post about Headless Checkout: https://jacobarriola.com/post/headless-woocommerce-stripe-checkout-graphql Also there is WPGraphQL JWT Authentication plugin:https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql-jwt-authentication
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I have always loved the Clint Eastwood movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, but a couple of articles I read today about the author of the original story blew my mind. Apparently this was the same person who wrote George Wallace’s infamous inauguration speech! Here is an article from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/17/movies/movie-with-a-murky-background-the-man-who-wrote-the-book.html Also this one from Dissent:
Non-Contract Union is in interesting concept: https://collectiveaction.tech/2021/the-abcs-of-googles-new-union/ The above article describes how this works in the context of the effort to organize by Alphabet’s workers. Another story: https://inthesetimes.com/article/google-workers-alphabet-union-cwa
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Pretty good firewood from this place: https://www.woodhillfirewood.com It was $40 for 1/12 of a cord. A cord is 128 ft3, so this is almost 11 ft3. From Smart & Final I had been paying $9.99 for 1.0 ft3. This comes to about 40% of that price. I expect this to last for 8 to 10
For the past few years I have been dipping my toe in Marie Kondo simplification and tidying up. Doing this I was able to let go of a ton of unneeded stuff, in particular clothes and books. But I still have a lot more to let go of and periodically I do some “Konmari-ing” to
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Create ML looks like a pretty cool gateway into machine learning. I watched the intro video recently and was intrigued enough to want to learn more. I write this hear to capture thelink and the thought.
This workshop from JSNation conference in June of 2020 provides a detailed introduction on how to create a Frontity theme. The above video includes the entire 3 hour workshop. This github repo contains the detailed contents of the workshop as well as the example code: https://github.com/frontity-demos/2020-06-jsnation-workshop Addendum – Connecting to Gutenberg This detailed post references
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