projectimmerse, Author at Project Immerse

July 19, 2018June 16, 2020

WordPress links with hashes and disabling a links normal behavior

WordPress allows for the creation of custom links within the Menu’s area. I like this feature, it has been around for years.

I use it sometimes to create internal and external links but there are cases where I wanted them disabled. In this case and as you may have experienced – a custom link requires a value. It’s pretty common to just put a hash “#” as a value.

Something like href=”#”. This however will cause the element to behave normally as it should – there’s nothing wrong with that except it will cause your page to “jump” back up to the top of the page which can be annoying for visitors.

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July 16, 2018June 16, 2020

WordPress – Removing AMP Plugin

I’m actually big fan of this wordpress plugin despite the bugs. The authors of this plugin I can tell have been working hard in fixing existing bugs and there are a lot of them, not an easy task. As a developer myself I know how wild code can get, so I give these guys mad respect and credit.

Recently I was tasked with removing this plugin for a site. Disabling and removing the plugin was just the first step. The final step was to implement a redirect that would automatically redirect these amp urls to it’s respective non-amp url – leaving this as-is would be bad for SEO. And the client would not be happy to see their google rankings go down. So let’s take care of this.

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July 16, 2018June 16, 2020

Github – Submitting a Pull Request

Overview

A step by step guide on the pull request cycle. Submitting a pull request is part of a larger process in which external members can make modifications to the existing code base.

Forking

Fork target repository

Cloning involves making a copy of a git repository onto a local machine. In contrast, a fork is a cloning of one git repository to another repository.

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July 16, 2018June 16, 2020

Mac Cannot join wifi network – Try moving closer to the wireless router

If you are running into issues connecting to a network you used to be able to connect too or for unknown reasons, fire up the terminal and run the following command.

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July 11, 2018June 16, 2020

301 Redirect vs 301 RedirectMatch

I was recently tasked with redirecting a url, pretty straightforward I thought.

I said that was easy. But the issue was the trailing slash – this character had to be optional.

In your .htaccess file…


Redirect 301 /page-1/ /page-2/

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July 9, 2018June 16, 2020

Building a Tetris Game with Javascript

Welcome to my first post, what better way to start with a super complex but fun project. Before I start, I’d like to give credit to the original creator of this game – Pontus. Feel free to visit his Github and Youtube Channel for more of his projects and videos.

My intent is to complete this project and provide an unbiased review.

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