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The Future of WordPress Is Adaptive
What we used to call “responsive design” was all about screen size.Now, “responsive” should mean adaptive to context—not just devices. And all of that is achievable in WordPress. Adaptivity isn’t about complexity—it’s about relevance.The right interface for the right person at the right moment. Design isn’t static anymore. Your site shouldn’t be either. So how?…
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What it takes just to get the product out the door
It’s horrifying to think about the number of times I’ve thought (and said out loud) that I was within three weeks of having the first sales of PeakZebra. It’s taken forever, literally forever, and there are reasons for this, some of them good, some of them stemming from deep-seated psychological shortcomings. My therapist long ago…
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Block-based Forms
Old-style WordPress forms packages do a lot of things, but then again, they really don’t do a lot of things you’d think would be really obvious. One thing you can’t really do these days is build forms directly using ordinary WordPress blocks. Now, there are a good half-dozen prominent forms packages in the WordPress community…
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A Twin-Star Site Model
I don’t love the name, but I think the creator economy is a real-enough thing. There are at least a couple million creators on the web, I read somewhere, who make a living at it. My impression is that they either go with something like Patreon or Substack as a way to platform themselves, or…
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Creating a Block with Cursor AI
I’ve been trying to figure out what the best approach to getting the most productivity out of AI-assisted coding in Cursor. Some things work jaw-droppingly well. Others create a rabbit hole of inexplicable coding failures that are more trouble than they are worth to debug and make work. Here’s a very simple example of something…
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Adding Logic Cleanly
With the WordPress block editor, you get a reasonably good editor for managing the pieces that make up a typical web page. And that can include things like forms and interactive charts and so on. For that reason, PeakZebra uses the block editor as the interface for any clients that want to build or customize…
