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List of cowsay characters

By Gordon October 6, 2025

(Because I keep forgetting) Here’s a little bash script which will show you All The Cows. I run mine with added lolcat!

Some of my favourite WordPress Filters

By Gordon January 28, 2022

Everyone likes a good filter and virtually anything you want to do with WordPress has some sort of filter built into it. So we can … Continued

Roots Sage Yarn node-sass Errors

By Gordon June 2, 2021

When unpacking old Roots/Sage builds I often have issues with node-sass node versions and getting Yarn to build the project. Typically, after typing ‘yarn’ on … Continued

Little bit of jQuery to control your page scroll

By Gordon April 4, 2021

Here’s a little snippet which is useful for manipulating elements on window scroll events.

Solving the IOS body overflow bug

By Gordon July 7, 2020

Often I find myself locked into a battle of wits with the iOS browser and it’s annoying rendering quirks, and until recently a recurring issue … Continued

Fixing the node-sass error extracting old Roots Sage projects

By Gordon July 6, 2020

Problem: When extracting a package a stream of errors are generated on installation of yarn. gyp ERR! build errorgyp ERR! stack Error: not found: makegyp … Continued

Checking Gutenberg render callback locations

By Gordon November 5, 2019

Gutenberg needs no introduction for serious WP heads these days, and I expect – like me, you’ve all been experimenting with creating funky custom blocks. … Continued

Couple of methods for Enqueuing FontAwesome in WordPress

By Gordon September 24, 2019

Font Awesome is the ever useful font set for icons of all flavours. Version 4.7 is free and easily added to your WordPress website by … Continued

Radio box styling for Contact Form 7

By Gordon September 23, 2019

Hey there, here’s an update on the way I style up Radio inputs in Contact Form 7, this is in an update on the previous … Continued

jQuery each() vs for loop

By Gordon September 20, 2019

I recently read that the jQuery ‘each’ construct is more performance intensive than running a simple ‘for’ loop, which is borne out by testing. The … Continued

Add FontAwesome to WordPress posts with a Shortcode

By Gordon September 18, 2019

Every now and again we require a FontAwesome icon to be added as part of the WordPress post content, now FontAwesome are really good and … Continued

Customize WooCommerce Variation Dropdown Labels

By Gordon September 6, 2019

The default label for variations dropdown boxes is ‘Choose an option’ which is fine if you’ve only got one but if you have several attributes … Continued

A few useful options built into WordPress for Theme Developers

By Gordon March 5, 2019

Here’s how to get the page you have assigned as the ‘Static Front page’ in the Settings. Here’s the blog page option. The current themes … Continued

Lazy load your post thumbnails

By Gordon January 22, 2019

Modern standards and good practice can be easily applied to your website by lazy loading the images contained thereon. The theory is to only load … Continued

WooCommerce & Roots Sage 9

By Gordon November 26, 2018

Enable WooCommerce to Roots Sage 9 with minimum fuss!

Create a product category filter for WooCommerce

By Gordon June 26, 2018

Here’s a little function I’ve made which is quite useful and sought after. We’re going to add a product category filter above the product list … Continued