Two tools that can enhance your workflow immensely. Enjoy!
„After Meltdown, Spectre, and Foreshadow, we discovered more critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. The ZombieLoad attack allows stealing sensitive data and keys while the computer accesses them. While programs normally only see their own data, a malicious program can exploit the fill buffers to get hold of secrets currently processed by other running programs. These secrets can be user-level secrets, such as browser history, website content, user keys, and passwords, or system-level secrets, such as disk encryption keys.“ – zombieloadattack.com
There seems to be a new security related story every day. Read about the latest CPU related issues at CPU.fail.
Since I started in 2002, all iterations of portalZINE have been pure english content websites. You can read about the why on my services page.
I had potential customers in Germany complain about that a lot over the past few years. But your own website often suffers, while your customers get all the attention. That is how it is and how it should be!
Creating Multi – Language websites has been part of my services & portfolio for years, with an extreme application setup handling 13 languages in 2014 for the soccer world cup.
Multi-Language setups have come a long way and it was time to showcase that on my own setup as well. Not only to calm those potential customers, but to testdrive new functionality and possibilities on my own setup. portalZINE has always been my testlab for stability and new feature sets.
Most of my static pages are available in English and German now, the blog itself will remain pure English.
Need help setting up a multi language website, get in touch!
Cheers
Alex
Composercat is a comprehensive GUI for the Composer package manager, designed both for professionals and people taking their first steps with Composer.
A nice entry point for everyone that is afraid of the console. The GUI application is currently in beta and available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
„Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.“
I am taking a small easter break to join up with family and friends. We will have perfect weather up here in the north for the coming days.
I wish you all Happy Easter and many lovely days away from routine business life.
Enjoy
Alex
Visbug is an amazing new browser extension that allows you to do a visual inspection of your website in development.
A really nice tool for designers & content creators, helping them to optimize the look and feel of a website.
The extension is currently available for Chrome, but a Firefox Addon is in development.
Updated 25.03. : Some function names changed in the latest beta version.
ACF 5.8 Beta introduced an easy way to create your custom Gutenberg blocks. I am already using it heavily for a current project, to easily organize content and media assets.
Really powerful, when combined with Timber as well, which has been the foundation of many of my themes for years now ;)
Organizing data using ACF is nice, but sometimes you seek access to that saved block data directly. I hate it when I am confined to boundaries and the data flow is restricted or hidden. I need things to be accessible to choose the creative flow myself.
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// Parse blocks from post content $blocks = parse_blocks($your_post_content); $collect = array(); // Loop through the blocks foreach($blocks as $block){ //Setup global block post data context // before: acf_setup_postdata acf_setup_meta( $block['attrs']['data'], $block['attrs']['id'], true ); // Get ACF fields $fields = get_fields(); // I am using this to organize my assets. // Each block of mine has a unique identifier as its first field: // $uid = $block['attrs']['data'][array_keys($block['attrs']['data'])[0]] // I would do: // $collect[$uid] = $fields; // Collection of fields using the block id. $collect[$block['attrs']['id']] = $fields; // Restore global context // before: acf_reset_postdata acf_reset_meta( $block['attrs']['id'] ); } |
There you go, enjoy some free block data :)
I was a big skeptic, when it comes to WordPress and the new Gutenberg editor, but combined with ACF + Timber its pure magic :) Looking forward to things to come!
Cheers
Alex
Extended example:
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$collect = []; $blocks = parse_blocks($your->post_content); foreach($blocks as $block){ if( isset($block['attrs']['data']) && !empty($block['attrs']['data'][array_keys($block['attrs']['data'])[0]])){ acf_setup_meta( $block['attrs']['data'], $block['attrs']['id'], true ); $fields = get_fields(); acf_reset_meta( $block['attrs']['id'] ); $collect[$block['attrs']['data'][array_keys($block['attrs']['data'])[0]]] = array('render' => render_block( $block ), 'field' => $fields, 'block' => $block ); }else{ $collect['main'] .= render_block( $block ); } } |
The $collect array will hold all data, including all ACF fields. You will have full access to any field, including repeater fields. The $collect[‚main‘] will just collect the standard post content.
svgcleaner has been around for some time and is constantly being optimized! It helps you clean up your SVG files, keeping them free from unnecessary data.
Github project.
The GUI application adds batch file processing, decompression & compression and parallel cleaning jobs, GUI application.
GREENTONICs key concept is sustainability, which encompasses consulting, concept, design and implementation. I have a close relationship with the agency and have done a couple of projects with and for them.
Villa Anna Speyer – Classic Bed & Breakfast offering, with 3 double rooms & bathroom.