I recently needed to resize a few dozen high-resolution images so that I could upload them to a WordPress website. The host and/or WordPress configuration was showing an error message instead of generating the typical thumbnail, medium, and large image sizes for several of the images because they were too large in terms of pixel…
I recently created a custom SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web part that had some text fields in the property pane with character limits. I wanted the page authors to have some feedback as they typed so they knew how many characters were left, so I used the description property with some string concatenation to make it…
GitHub provides some documentation on how to keep your fork in sync with the original (i.e. “upstream”) repo that you forked from. This is essential if you are working on some changes for a long time and the original repo is getting updated with other pull requests in the meantime. There are a couple rules…
I recently helped a client create a COVID-19 page on their intranet, which is still using on-premises SharePoint 2013. To add some visual flair to the page, I used emojis in the web part titles. It’s funny, I haven’t done a lot of work on SharePoint Classic pages in years, and back then emojis were…
Like most of the web industry, I use Git for version control, and so far I’ve mainly worked with GitHub remotes, so that’s what I’m set up for now. This post will cover how I install and configure Git to work smoothly in Windows. Disclaimer: I don’t do much web development in Windows these days,…
The other day I needed to change the embed code for a video in a publishing site’s “Images” library that was using the video content type in SharePoint 2013. This content type–based on the document set I believe–allows you to either upload a video file, provide a URL to a video file, or paste in…
In my current SharePoint Online intranet project, one of the requirements is to have a web part similar to the five-tile grid “Hero” web part that displays a comment count (if linking to a modern news page) in addition to the title text. For the web part, I wanted to make it as easy as…
I’ve been working on a new intranet project that uses modern communication sites in SharePoint Online, and we’re using the new Quick Links web part in two places; one to display links to important intranet pages using the “compact” view, and another to display links to external news articles using the “filmstrip” view. We needed…
I’ve been using Vagrant with VirtualBox to handle WordPress local development, but it’s a bit tedious. I’ve never really mastered setting up multiple WordPress installs using a single image, so I end up with multiple images taking up a bunch of hard drive space. When I heard about Local by Flywheel I was intrigued, and…
A Quick Note: This blog post is long overdue. It’s been sitting in my drafts for about six months, so keep in mind that most of this is in the context of late 2016. It’s been a few years since I paid much attention to my personal website from a development perspective, so I decided to refresh the…