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by Mark Howells-Mead

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Client-side filters in the WordPress Block Editor

    24th May 2023
    WordPress

    Using block filters in JavaScript to override theme.json settings on a per-case basis.

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  • Hiking the Ice Path in summer

    Hiking the Ice Path in summer

    20th May 2023
    Hiking and walking, Video

    With a name like “Ice Path”, you know before you arrive that a hiking route is going to be a pretty spectacular one.

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  • Arnison Crag from Patterdale

    18th May 2023
    Hiking and walking

    The third of our slightly soggy hikes in the English Lake District in autumn 2022.

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  • Paddle steamer on Lac Léman, passing Lutry

    Random things in April

    18th May 2023
    Documentary photography

    It seems as though there will be a fair amount of travelling for me this year, both around Switzerland (which is pretty normal for Jo and for me in our time off), and abroad. After visiting England in March, I was back again in April to visit Mum; later in the month, I rode the […]

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  • Driving to the coast

    Driving to the coast

    10th May 2023
    Video

    This music video by Bayview Sounds for their song “Home Alone” is very evocative of my trips to the eastern Scottish coast, with sea haar and low sun whilst driving along narrow roads. (The video was actually filmed in the far northern Scottish county of Caithness, which feels like the end of the world.)

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  • Michi in the train

    Working on the rails

    7th May 2023
    Life (and how to live it)

    Working in the web industry, I began getting fed up of trailing all the way to an office to work. When I moved to web agency Say Hello, I vowed to make the most of “remote working”.

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  • Random things in March

    2nd April 2023
    Documentary photography

    This month’s set of photos is especially random, but that’s the whole point; not just of the ongoing photo series here on my website, but also in my life. The more varied and random, the better for me.

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  • Award-winning bathing beach, Sheerness

    Grot

    24th March 2023
    Documentary photography, Travel

    One of my hobbies is visiting less-than-salubrious destinations to take interesting photographs.

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  • Random things in December

    5th March 2023
    Documentary photography

    The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Storing credentials securely in WordPress plugin settings

    3rd March 2023
    WordPress

    If you’re writing a plugin which needs to connect to a third-party service, there’s a relatively high chance that you’ll need to store credentials securely.

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  • Random things in February

    1st March 2023
    Documentary photography

    February 2023 was cold and seemingly endless.

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  • Automating visual comparison checks of your website

    13th February 2023
    WordPress

    Using a third-party service to compare your website before and after a technical update.

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  • Above the clouds en route to Beatenberg

    Random things in November

    8th February 2023
    Documentary photography, Hiking and walking, Landscape photography

    Little photography and a big loss.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Block Patterns and Block Variations of the Query Loop

    8th February 2023
    WordPress

    Block Patterns, Block Variations and Reusable Blocks. How and why they’re useful and implementable.

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  • Audi Quattro, sliding down from Lombachalp, January 2023

    Random things in January

    1st February 2023
    Life (and how to live it)

    Another year and another fresh start to a series of monthly recaps. (The complete set from 2022 is here. I’ll be posting my favourite shots from 2022 next—only three months late—so stay tuned for that.)

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Updated Gutenberg category selector

    27th January 2023
    WordPress

    Building a single-selection category selector for WordPress Gutenberg using React.

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  • Calendar for my aunt

    22nd January 2023
    Landscape photography

    Selected images for the 2023 calendar I made for my aunt.

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  • Calendar for Mum

    22nd January 2023
    Landscape photography

    My selected images for Mum’s 2023 calendar.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Using useSelect in Gutenberg to fetch data from the REST API

    12th January 2023
    WordPress

    A simpler alternative to wrapping a Gutenberg edit component with a higher-order component.

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  • Pools of light

    10th December 2022
    Documentary photography

    A good pool of light and a wet street will always draw my camera more quickly than a quaint festive scene.

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  • Screenshot of the WordCamp Switzerland website

    Building a multilingual WordCamp website

    1st December 2022
    WordPress

    How I used manual content structuring and the power of the WordPress Site Editor to set up what we believe to be the first non-plugin-based multilingual WordCamp website.

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