This write-up is to cover the very basics needed to have a child theme for testing, not instructions to create a full child theme for selling or white labeling for a client.You can get more in-depth information...
Setup WordPress for local testing
If you’re getting started with WordPress or needing to test out themes, plug-ins or code, doing a local install is the best way to practice and test without worrying about altering your live site. Or if you want to work on WordPress sites when you don’t have internet...
Tic-Tac-Toe in JavaScript
To take a break from the other projects this weekend I worked on a Tic-Tac-Toe game in JavaScript. The basic instructions I had for myself was it needed to be able to be played by 1 or 2 people. I started with creating the game for 2 players. Thinking that if I can...
Save posts to a WordPress Database – Working Notes
This is notes/overview of a project I started on to add several posts to WordPress (WP) from HTML files without having to copy and paste each file. These are just notes from that dropped project and the basic Python script to do this (github). Make sure you fully test...
CMYK converter added
CMYK is a tricky one, since each device would interpret the colors differently. Had almost decided not to even include it but thought it could be useful at times. Looking around I found a basic formula that most people were using to give a rough idea for the color. I...
Conversion Iteration #2: Color
For iteration #2: I added Hex color to RGB to the conversion app page converter. Hex: This will take the 6-digit hex color only accepting 0-9 and A-F. Then it will convert the Hex to RGB with commas between the 3 color grouping. RGB: For the RGB to Hex the user will...
Measurement Conversion created in JavaScript
Created my own conversion page, some of the reasons for this, you may have run across these issues also: ton of ads on page and overlay ads; the ads and the converter all look the same; the one that made me decide to create my own was the conversion was wrong. While I...
Using Databases in Python
For my next project I wanted to work with a database in Python. Since databases are used in about every major coding situation I wanted to a project that would be close to a real world project. Spent time in January doing basic exercises/classes with Python with...
Update to Excel file in Python
I went back to create a way to make the script into a stand-alone app that the client can use on their own using PyInstaller. I’ve used PyInstaller before for the calculator program: https://www.lynnamacher.com/gui-python-calculator-stand-alone-app-with-pyinstaller/...
Updating an Excel file in Python
Client received a few Excel files of subscribers that needed to be sorted. They’re needing to pull the last name out and put it in its own column, so they can easily look up the subscribers. The issue with the Excel files is they want to sort the subscribers by last...