This seems to be a tradition now, reflecting on the year in a “last post of…”. I’ve done it for two years now, in 2018, and 2019. This year has obviously gone differently than anyone could have planned. Most of my (loosely defined) goals last year were related to work, and when everything changed those …
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Taking 72 Screenshots in 5 Minutes
In WordPress, there are nine available color schemes for use in the admin. They’re generated from a base _admin.scss file, and if I make a change, I need to go and test it out nine different times. I also have a plugin that adds another ten schemes… so you can see where this is going. …
Colorless wp-admin?
Sometimes you get an idea in your head and you just need to follow through. With all the talk about revisiting wp-admin color schemes, I wondered… could I remove all the colors from all the stylesheets? What would that look like? I already had a tool parsing out stylesheets to count colors, so I went …
New Admin Color Schemes
Happy WordPress 5.4 day! While working on the about page for 5.4, I realized I really liked those colors, and the page would probably look pretty cool with a matching admin color scheme. So I got to work updating Admin Color Schemes (all the way from WP 4.4 😱), updated the build process, and got …
Last post of 2019
I was going to do the “posts I’ve drafted over the last decade” thing that Aaron & Jeremy did, but then it sat in my drafts for a week 😅 Instead I’m going to revisit the post I wrote at the end of last year. In it, I mentioned getting engaged, and this year, we got married ❤️