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Tell me it’s not over #WCBELFAST :(

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After months of planning and preparation – the project that was Wordcamp Belfast 2018 #WCBELFAST is nearly a memory. The event closed yesterday and the attendees, speakers, volunteers and organisers are returning to their respective homes across the world. As a first time co-organiser of the event – it was an experience to set up […]

Belfast WordPress Meetup May 2018

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At the recent WordPress Meetup  we had three talks on similar but different aspects of running WordPress locally to enhance development pipelines and to allow for disaster recovery testing. I gave a talk on Docker and its role in running / testing WordPress and other applications. I used a couple of example docker containers and […]

Wordcamp Belfast 2018 #WCBELFAST

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I can’t believe how the time has flown since it was announced that Wordcamp would be returning to Belfast in 2018. We have a great range of speakers and subject across the two days of the event (26th 27th May 2018) and it promises to be another great community get together. This is the only […]

Getting started with WP-CLI in WordPress

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As part of the last monthly WordPress Belfast Meetup I gave a talk on getting started with the WordPress Command Line Interface more commonly known as WP-CLI. Having seen the interface mentioned in a Wordcamp Dublin event as a means of manipulating WordPress I was curious to see exactly what could be achieved. The project […]

Testing Gutenberg, Handy Snippets, WP Workshop & WP Events @ Belfast WordPress Meetup

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This month’s WordPress meetup covered a range of topics. Mark Smallman  guided the meeting through the use and potential of Gutenberg as a new block based editor for WordPress. He showed some of the functionality and advised looking at the examples as well as taking on board potential issues with the new plugin especially in existing […]

DIVI update 3.0.56 generates expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error in logs

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Just had 4 sites affected when updating to latest version of DIVI. The effect is that you get an error 500 when trying to access the site after the update. The logs show [02-Jul-2017 07:23:40 UTC] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /path/to/yoursite/wp-content/themes/Divi/epanel/custom_functions.php on line 2082 The solution that worked for […]