Peter Wilson

I’m thrilled to be part of the line up for Web Directions Enqueue, co presented by The Code Company, on November 28, 2025.

WordPress plugins require a number of headers to be included in the plugin file for them to render correctly in the dashboard.

“13” by Alexander Makarov is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

In a December blog post Juliette Reinders Folmer described the upgrade path to allow projects for supporting PHP 8 alongside older versions of PHP as a nightmare.

WordPress 5.6 “Simone” has now been released and is available for download.

Swings and roundabouts but this week I am sick of it.

I don’t think the stream, per se, was the problem with the Nick Cave concert last night.

A very common pattern on the web is to overlay text on a photo.

For WordPress site owners wishing to use real cron via a crontab job, it’s fairly common to see advice to use curl to request the site’s wp-cron.php file on a regular basis.

I’m in London visiting friends for a couple of weeks and, predictably enough, took them to see West End production of Hamilton the Musical.