Using YouTube Embeds as a Video Background

Using YouTube Embeds as a Video Background Without Showing The Video Controls

In recent times, video backgrounds in websites have been more and more common. They are commonly used as hero section backgrounds, or backgrounds for other sections. The use of graphics and visuals in motion provide nice eye-candy for your users and can also be used to supplement your branding or product. When using video for […]

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Using the WordPress Interactivity API without using Blocks and Gutenberg

In the WordPress 6.5 Update, WordPress introduced the Interactivity API. The Interactivity API allows “developers to create rich, interactive user experiences”. The main purpose for the Interactivity API is to provide a standard way for developers to develop interactive experiences when developing Gutenberg Blocks. I like the idea of a standard, “WordPress way” of developing […]

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Update and Upgrade torch and xformers on Windows 11 for AUTOMATIC1111’s Stable Diffusion WebUI (2024)

Upgrade torch and xformers on Windows 11 for Stable Diffusion WebUI to improve generation speeds.

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Sorting Category and Taxonomy Terms by Latest Post in WordPress

Recently I needed to implement a way to return custom taxonomy terms sorted by their latest posts. For example, imagine we have a movie review site, and we use the default category taxonomy as “Movie Categories”. Maybe they will have the following taxonomy terms: Getting taxonomy terms with get_terms() We can easily get the category […]

How to Autoplay Youtube Video Embeds

How to Autoplay Youtube Video Embeds (2024)

Often times we want to embed a Youtube video on our websites. These days this is very easy thanks to the embed option Youtube provides.

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Recreating, Finding Google Universal Analytics (UA) reports in Google Analytics 4 (GA4): Audience

With Google Universal Analytics (UA) being sunset very soon, everyone will be forced to use Google Analytics 4 (GA4). A lot of the default reports should feel familiar, however a lot of other reports that were available by default in UA are missing. For some, this may be a source of frustration and major deal […]

Most Useful Wordpress WP-CLI Commands

Most Useful WordPress WP-CLI commands

When working on a WordPress site, I often find myself using WordPress’s command-line interface tool called WP-CLI. With WP-CLI you can do a lot of tasks that normally require a separate plugin to do, or tasks that normally may be challenging using just the website. I will go over some of my most used commands […]

Reverse Engineering Android Games

Reverse Engineering and Unlocking Android Games that are no longer supported

Recently, I was going through my android phone backups and found a game that I hadn’t played in a while. I reinstalled it with adb to play it again, but I realized that my In-App Purchase for the game could not be recovered as it was no longer on the Play Store and was no […]

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WordPress Optimization Technique: Removing unused CSS styles and Javascript from the front-end

Overview WordPress is a popular platform to use when developing websites. It is easy to spin up and deploy, easy to develop with, and most importantly, provides huge options for extensibility due to its large plugin and theme directory. WordPress and its plugins allow webmasters to add features and modify their websites even without any […]

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Implementing structured data markup (JSON-LD Schema) manually for WordPress

In this article, we will explore how we might go about implementing ourselves instead of using a plugin. We will assume we have a basic understanding of HTML, PHP, and how WordPress's theme or plugin works to add our own custom code.