Porchy Web Development

This was going to be “things I liked this year” but books are the easiest for me. One thing I’ve loved doing is the goodreads challenge – here is mine for 2020, it’s simply “read 52 books in 52 weeks”. I don’t put all the books on it, no one really needs to know when …

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Spoiler: the issue is in the css-loader update and the fix is outlined here. The css-loader needs the esModule: false option. My final webpack.config.js looks like this: More on the issue I was updating an old-ish (3 years) Vue app which had been updated but not regularly. I got everything working again as you do …

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This is a proof of concept web app, completely editable in WordPress using the block editor. I think it’s more fun to do it first. (Please let me know if these don’t work, they’re version 0.1. Saving them will save to your browser only.) Fill in the blanks then click “your poem” to see your …

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The issue When I first put this site on Gatsby, I found adding comments tricky. I used this blog post, Dynamic Comments with Gatsby and WordPress, tweaked it a bit and shoved it in. I only used it for the comments form because I wasn’t worried about rebuilding – I really just wanted to see …

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Massive caveat: Currently (24 July 2020) Okta does not support automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates and renewals for custom domains. So I’ll have to do this <= 89 days from now again. Which is why I’m writing it down. Ideally this post will not be needed soon because Okta will set up one click, auto renewing …

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caveat: this is an “I don’t really know what I’m doing but it’s working, so….” post. This blog is on Netlify and uses Gatsby to build it from the a WordPress install (I’m typing this on the WP install, it’ll get built by Netlify and published there.) Because I’m a lazy sod, I’m just leaving …

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Here’s what I wanted to do: give clients the ability to add conditional items to menus and be clear about which users will see which items on the front end menu. For example, I want some menu items which only show for logged in users and some which only show for users who have bought …

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As expected, Gutenberg blocks with inner blocks, eg columns, weren’t working. Like other bits, this was somewhat straightforward once I figured out how. It took me a while and with more than a few infinite loops thrown in to make it that much more frustrating. What I ended up is copying the render_blocks function from …

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