Craig Simpson

@richard_bell If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Another day of debugging a "Why would you do that with WordPress"?

@richard_bell I think you could provide singular string "win" and the count to Str::plural() #method-str-plural" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">laravel.com/docs/10.x/stri…

Surely there must be a string helper in Laravel that will remove an s when something is singular e.g. Wins becomes Win if some sort of counts is one? Maybe something exisits in vanila PHP.

@keithdevon @freshdesk I've used Helpscout in the past and this is very reminiscent. Very lightweight, you can just add the "modules" you want (they're paid but at a one-off cost.) Completely self-hosted, the only work required was app installation and then setting up an email account for it to use.

@craigsimps @freshdesk Thanks, Craig. How are you finding it? Were you using any support software previously? I was hoping to avoid any development work. I need something lightweight that just works.

Hi @freshdesk Can I confirm with you that the free plan only lets you send 10 ticket replies per month? That's what I was just told on my demo (upsell) call. But I can't find reference to that limit on your website.

@cdils Right there with ya.

{{sigh}} I'm just missing good-ole separation of presentation and content today. /6 </end-mini-rant>

One of the things I've always enjoyed about WordPress is the separation of the presentation layer (themes) with the site functionality (plugins) and the content (database). The block editor changed that. 🧵/1

@stevemarkperry The alternative which comes to mind would be a monolith 'ui-kit' repository containing all the blocks, which you pull in with Composer, and then use some mechanic in the theme to enable or disable the blocks you want. add_theme_support maybe?

@stevemarkperry I have a similar-sounding setup, though not with blocks, where I manage individual modules as separate repositories and then pull them in individually with Composer.

I’ve got a situation where the ideal is to pull in blocks from our UI kit on a need-to-use basis. I’d love to have them “installed” during composer install. But, there will eventually be a lot of blocks, and I don’t want to pollute our GitHub repo with them all.

@richard_bell Nice one👍 Should be plain sailing from there.

@craigsimps Thanks for all the links/pointers. Up and running in Tinkerwell just need to get it working in my codebase now 👍

Anyone know of a nice easy way to post to Facebook from a Laravel app. Looked at zapier but its $16 a month. Only need it once a week to link to a newsletter 🤷‍♂️

@richard_bell The following was helpful in going through the access token debacle developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-…

@craigsimps Arhh ok I've only got as far as the long lived token expiring in 60 days

@richard_bell You have to turn your short-lived user access token into a long-lived user access token, and then into a page access token. Then the page token doesn't have an expiry.

@craigsimps How do you manage the 60 day expiry of the code?

@richard_bell I ended up with the following:

@richard_bell There's a bit of jumping through hoops to get a long-lived access token, but you can just POST to an API endpoint. In my case I used the one here: developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/pub…

@richard_bell @greensock Built a very nice "interactive experience" site recently using GSAP, lots of interaction and animation. Happy to help if I can Richard.

@greensock Or so I thought. This is infuriating. Anyone I know used this succesfully before?

On fire this morning. @greensock scroll triggered animations 💥💪

@stevemarkperry @Tinkerwellapp I've used this one in PHPStorm for a while now and really like it github.com/brendt/phpstor…

@Tinkerwellapp I might try this in my IDE. I know I'll implode right away but I'm beyond caring 🤷‍♂️

UIsing @Tinkerwellapp with a light theme because 😍

@Deadlyslob Third Wednesday of the week.

And by Wednesday I totally mean Thursday ahahah

Being out in public at 12:45 on a Wednesday feel so weird. I'm trying to think when was the last time I was actually not streaming at this time.

@florinpop17 I use Mailbird Pro getmailbird.com

What mail client are you using on Windows?

@JiveDig @keithdevon @richtabor Keith's use case might be different, but for me, I create custom font sizes for headings in theme.json. If I have a paragraph that I want to apply 'has-heading-two-font-size', then I end up with 2.5rem text, and inherit 1.6 line height from my default paragraph style.

@keithdevon @richtabor I may be slow here, but can u clarify the use-case and value of how this would help and what it would do?

I think that we need a way to tie line-height to font-size in theme.json. Was about to post this suggestion but @richtabor has me well beaten to it. github.com/WordPress/gute…

@keithdevon @richtabor Yes, that would be a welcome addition. Tricky though, because if I'm using fluid font sizes I don't always want the same line height at the min as I do at the max.

@richard_bell It means you can't bring in alternative versions of libraries that are already bundled with WP. So for example WP has PHPMailer 6.6.5 but you want to include version 6.6.2 in your plugin.

WordPress Plugin authors... Does this mean I can't pull in Carbon/Symfony componenets/Collections with composer? #13-plugins-must-use-wordpress-default-libraries" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpr…

@wpmark Plugin looks great - good luck with the launch guys 👍

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