After you’ve completed the initial interviews and projects it’s time for the trial which is aptly called chaos. A few … Continue Reading Welcome To The Chaos (Part 2 Of Happiness Engineer Hiring)
Back in July of this year (2018) I knew I needed a change. I had sold my original WordPress theme … Continue Reading Applying To Be a Happiness Engineer (Part 1)
Today I’m excited to kick off my new blog, Just a Bill. For years I’ve been toying with the idea … Continue Reading Hello World, It’s Me Bill
When developing a single page app with the WP REST API we often have different URLs where we pull data. Typically I’m developing locally with a .test domain and working with a separate demo site on my live server. On … Continue Reading Use Localize Script For WP REST API Requests
While WordPress’ system of loading scripts and styles is a vast improvement over hard coding these files in the head and footer of a site, they struggle with modern web build systems like Webpack. These tools allow us to have … Continue Reading Enqueuing Scripts With Dynamic Hashes in WordPress
One of the quirks of the WordPress REST API is how it handles not found errors. WordPress would love if … Continue Reading Handling Not Found Errors in the WordPress REST API
One of the hallmarks of a site that is a web app is nice, fluid animations. Angular 4+ has a solid animation system you can use, but sometimes animating between router views can be tricky. When I was developing Artisan … Continue Reading Angular 5 Router Animations Tied To Images Loading
One problem that often vexes WordPress users is when you enter content into the “content” box on your blog’s post page, that content will not be displayed on the post page. The page’s content is replaced with a list of … Continue Reading Using Static Content and Custom Fields on WordPress’ Post Page