Articles Archive : barrd.dev

Introduction If you’ve ever found a WordPress page “sticking”, glitching, or repeating itself when the Admin Bar is active, especially in a Chromium based browser, you’re not alone.

Introduction Advanced Custom Fields logoThree letters all in uppercase, A, C and F which together is the Advanced Custom Fields logo During the process of updating ACF‘s blocks API from version 2 to 3 on this site I took the opportunity to rename a few of…

Introduction If you’re running a site on something like Laravel Herd, Valet or MAMP using Gulp with BrowserSync for live reloads, you’ve probably seen your URL stubbornly refuse to be secure.

Introduction Recently whilst tinkering with a particularly tricky project, I came across Git’s worktree feature.

Introduction Whilst preparing for WordPress 7.0’s enforced iFrame editor I upgraded the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) blocks from API version 2 to 3.

Introduction If you’ve ever tried storing SVG‘s in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) or any other custom fields, then outputting them in a theme, you’ll know the pain.

Introduction Caching is one of those things we all rely on, whether we love it or not.

Introduction Occasionally you come across a great bit of software that does one job and does it perfectly.

Introduction The Vivaldi User Agent is a strong and fairly recent contender in the ongoing “which browser is my favourite” debate.

Introduction There may be times you’ll find a third party plugin loads a script (or more than one) at times when it’s not needed.

Introduction I would implore people to read this as ‘solutions to issues’ rather than a direct ‘how-to.’

Introduction I stumbled across this undocumented feature of Mastodon via a post from Fedi.Tips which I wanted to share.

Introduction About three months ago I wrote an article on how to protect Contact Form 7 with Cloudflare’s Turnstile.

Introduction Covid, that old chestnut, saw the original group disband as we put out our own personal fires and coped with that difficult time in the best ways we could.

Introduction My ongoing process is to remove any Google products whenever I can, another opportunity arose when they reached out to inform me that reCAPTCHA was moving to Google Cloud.

Introduction If a project doesn’t specify which version of node was used when created it can be problematic as time passes and you need to do some further work down the line.

Introduction Rather than having to remember which version of node works with your project you can add a facility to automatically call ‘nvm use‘ in a directory that contains a .nvmrc file when you change directory (cd) into it.

Introduction Inspired by Andy (daw50n) on his Mastodon Profile Page, I’d noticed he had a verified Pixelfed account link under the Profile Metadata section.

Introduction Inspired by a recent update in WooCommerce where I’d noticed an indicator of the shops state was shown in the top menu bar (e.g.

Introduction I should point out from the get-go that I’m no expert in this field… at all!

Introduction This is a QuickNote article about how to add the vignette effect (amongst others) to images in Adobe’s Photoshop.

Introduction This short article is mainly as a reference for me as I keep forgetting how to locate and edit Cookies and Local Storage in Google Chrome, if you’re reading this then I hope it helps you too.

Introduction I had a requirement to build something like this for a personal site so thought I’d share what I came up with after reading a good answer on stackexchange that was very close to what I needed.

Introduction This is a ‘for fun’ article that I thought I’d share after trying a few different methods of adding extra layered colour to coloured emoji.

Introduction As a relatively new piece of software Herd is under rapid development and there are a few options that are not yet available.

Introduction Bedrock presents a superb modern WordPress boilerplate system that enhances the folder structure with integrated Composer and Git functionalities.

Introduction This is a quick guide to setup Spatie’s Ray debugger for use with the WordPress CMS.

Introduction If you’ve ever created a plugin with custom functionality outside of what would normally go inside a theme but don’t want the client to have the ability to deactivate it, what do you do?

Introduction I’ve had a little time lately to get ahead of the game and update, run and test several WordPress sites using PHP 8.2.

Update Oct / Nov 2023 – Shut Down Pebble is to close its doors and cease service on November 1st 2023.

Introduction We’ve all had users who upload images of a size viewable from space down to teeny tiny thumbnails.

Introduction I was playing around with my personal SpinupWP setup and happened to click on the Dashboard link, it’s not something I often do as generally leave it on the Sites page.

Introduction As a long time user of Laravel Valet I was a little reluctant to try out Herd including wondering what I would do with it Homebrew wise and its often used companion, PHP Monitor.

Introduction I don’t write much about my personal life but this seems like a genuinely worthwhile topic.

Introduction I recently resized the featured images for a clients posts to bring them inline with the 1200x628px standard.

Introduction I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time.

Introduction Since ACF 6.0.7 it’s been possible to allow installing the PRO version via Composer without using one of the plethora of ‘hacks’ out there to get around authentication.

Introduction This technique will not work with a free plan, in order to achieve this you’ll need a Proton Mail paid plan.

Introduction I’ve been slowly but surely moving as many facilities as I can away from Google for privacy reasons.

Introduction I’d already added quite a few articles to this site when I realised that I really wanted the ‘click to copy’ functionality applied to the WordPress Gutenberg (Editor) core/code block.

Update August 2025, New Quotes Notification Quotes are now available and as such there is another notification setting that must be turned off to make this article complete.

Introduction We shall be using the Open Source package FontForge to extract only the glyphs we need from a pre-existing font.

Introduction Following on from my article about creating an easily accessible folder for Screenshots I’ll cover how to capture a window without the unwanted box shadow.

Introduction I’ll admit straight away, the thought of moving all my accrued password details from years of use was a daunting one.

Introduction There are many ways of accomplishing this task.

Introduction We shall be using the Open Source package FontForge and utilising its scripting ability.

Introduction Are screenshots cluttering your desktop in an unorganised mess of confusion?

Introduction I like to schedule posts when I can, for myself and clients I look after but I’ve yet to find a mainstream service that caters to Mastodon.

Introduction If you’re creating a WordPress Custom Post Type (CPT) that’s going to be fairly uniform in its layout structure you could have a look at adding a template.

Introduction Using custom fonts are a great way of standing out from the crowd and bring a personal touch to any website.