Porchy Web Development

“How hard can it be to make an image cropper?” 🙃 It took me longer than I think it should have but was a great deal of fun. Here is the working version (“working” being relative, mind you) and you can remix it in Glitch here. If you haven’t used Glitch, try it out. It’s like Codepen for …

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I’m making a post of this because TWICE I’ve spent a couple of hours wondering if Google DFP is just taking a long time to update. ADD THE AD UNIT TO THE TARGETING IN CREATIVES -> NATIVE STYLES -> STYLE. Otherwise it will never show up.

Do you consider your email address to be private information but use it to register and comment on WordPress powered sites? Many WordPress sites use Gravatar to provide the avatars on comments and user lists and this can be an issue if you do.

This is an overview of how sites get data from Gravatar and what’s available from the Gravatar ‘API’ (quotes theirs).

Privacy concerns regarding Gravatar are not new. But what exactly are they and how can you avoid your data leaking? And what is Gravatar?

What do contact forms leave in a site’s database when they’re deleted? How easy is it to manage the data they store? What personal data do they grab?

I had a rather interesting problem the other day. My ajax request was not working if I didn’t use the wp_ajax_nopriv_ action on a page where the user was clearly logged in. Why? Why was this happening?

Need the place id or anything from the Places Search results for whatever you’re doing with the Google Maps API?