Joe McGill

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  • Emoji posts šŸ™Œ

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    WordPress version 4.2 beta 2 just released, which means everyone is one step closer to using emoji in their posts, including post slugs (see this URL). WordPress 4.2 BetaĀ 1 http://t.co/RRNtmitDzP — WordPress (@WordPress) March 12, 2015 Go read more at WordPress.org  

  • Photo: WordCamp St. Louis 2015

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    Chris Koerner captured this shot of me during my presentation at WordCamp St. Louis lastĀ weekend. Check out the rest of hisĀ photos from the event on his Flickr page.

  • WordCamp St. Louis 2015 Slides

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    Atomic Design with WordPress Learn how to apply atomic design principles when building WordPress themes. If it’s good enough for NASA, its probably good enough for you. Source: Atomic Design with WordPress // Speaker Deck

  • A WordPress filter to avoid widows in your titles

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    When you’re a designer who codes (or a developer who designs), you end up obsessing over stupid things like making sure you don’t end up with widows in your titlesĀ (a single word that wraps to a new line). Here’s a small filter you can throw in your functions.php file toĀ replace the last space in your…

  • Coach Welker

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    I would guess that almost everyone has aĀ favorite teacherā€”an individual who impacted their life in a profound way. I’ve been fortunate to have several such teachers, but today my thoughts are on one in particular. Jeff Welker was a high school history teacher and football coach. A man deeply dedicatedĀ to his profession and to the…

  • Reflections on 2014

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    I’ve never been much for resolutions, per se, but I do think it can a good ideaĀ to reflect on the year that just passed before barreling headlong into a new one. In that spirit,Ā I thought I would jot down a few professional milestones from the previous year. Public speaking One of my goals for the…

  • A local WordPress setup using VVV

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    Setting up a local development environment for working on WordPress projects can be complicated. Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV), along with a few addition add-ons, makes it a bit less daunting to get up and running today.

  • Setting Up WordPress on DigitalOcean

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    I’ve recently had the need to explore a few different hosting environments and decided to give DigitalOcean a spin. Here’s a quick look at theĀ steps involved in getting WordPress set up on a LEMPĀ Ubuntu 14.04 droplet. Setting up the Droplet The initial setup was pretty easy after signing up for a Digital Ocean account. I…