Author: Ross Wintle

I rarely swear. I save it for when I really mean it. But f**k I can't get on with the WordPress block editor.

Is there some, intuitive way to paste a URL, as a URL, without it going batshit crazy trying to do something other than paste a URL?

😂

My open tabs list on my mobile has got silly big. Think I might blog them as I bookmark and close them down. Could be fun. 10 a day.

A worthy challenge?

Let’s see. It probably won’t last.

If no one notices the dumb jokes I’ll be very sad. 👀

Oh, and Turbo Admin is a browser extension, so I can fire up a new site with WP-CLI or Local or whatever and all these improvements are just injected into the site for me. No plugin.

I'm the only person that knows how it works and even *I* think it's freakin magic!!!

Sorry.

Will shut up now.

If you like keyboard-driven tooling and use WordPress a lot, try it though, will you? 🙏

I know I keep on about it when I'm working on it, but, honestly, if you work across many WordPress sites, and are constantly spinning up new ones to test things, Turbo Admin removes SO many little annoyances like welcome screens/panels, unwanted help modals, and adds an actually-useful command palette, and now a bunch of helpful keyboard shortcuts.

Makes me SO productive!!

(And yes, I mostly made it for me. But I’m convinced that many others would love it too.)

https://turbo-admin.com/

This new plugin developer job has me working in the wp-admin dashboard a lot more of late. So I've really been working hard on Turbo Admin in my spare time to make life easier. And it's SO much easier using the keyboard to drive #WordPress.

See how much you can do with no mouse (I used my trackpad once in this recording – see if you can spot it!)

I don't really know how to talk about the benefits of this if you're in the Dashboard a lot. So just watch this…

I learned yesterday of a game called “The Mind” that seems very cool (though I’m guessing it could quickly get boring).

Seems all you need to play are 100 cards with the numbers 1 to 100 on them.

Might have a go at making it!

(Also, yes, wondering if a static web app can replace the cards somehow… hmm)

To be clear, I’m not saying don’t charge for your work. I’m totally up for that!

But if your primary motivation is education and helping others then make the resources you produce affordable.

Good examples of this are @kenney and @b0rk and @aurooba

I liked it when people made stuff for the love of doing it and because they wanted to share what they knew with others. Now it’s all super-professional production, wrapped in dodgy-looking marketing speak, using scammy scarcity marketing pricing techniques and costs hundreds of dollars because “value pricing” or something.

Even the people who clearly already have a crap ton of money are doing it.

I liked the old internet.

You know the whole "Our devices are listening to us all the time” thing.

Well the internet just went one better than that.

About 4.5 hours ago my kid asked me “Why is it that when our bodies are 37.5°C, we feel hot when it's 37.5°C?”

To my shame, I couldn't answer.

Then… THEN!!! …

1 hour ago, @hankgreen posts this!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DuzSbU2PyM

Looks like there might have been a Firefox change that stopped Turbo Admin working. Looking into that now!

If you have the browser extension it should auto-update. Or you can force it from the extensions options.

I'll be updating the plugin soon!

Cranking out updates this week!

Turbo Admin 1.15 is here with a big update to List Table Keyboard Shortcuts.

That’s a clumsy name, but it means you now get keyboard access to:

– Items in most“list tables” (posts, pages, comments, WooCommerce Orders and Products, etc) (‘J’, ‘K’ on keyboard, ‘Enter' to select)
– Focus search on list tables (‘/‘ on keyboard)
– Pagination of these tables ('Ctrl-F' and 'Ctrl-B’)

https://turbo-admin.com/

#WordPress

“I’ve been doing this for YEARS and there’s hardly a week that goes by that I don’t learn about a new horrifying way to accidentally cause a breaking change… the rules are too complex, there’s too many of them, it’s too easy to break them without noticing … The real answer here is the tooling just need to be good.”

Great Short from @changelog !

https://youtube.com/shorts/_qd1zW8gxUU

Fun getting stuck into Turbo Admin again. Nearly completed one of my favourite long-outstanding features: keyboard shortcuts for list tables!!

This makes #WordPress + Turbo Admin nicely keyboard driven for most core screens + WooCommerce!

Hopefully coming soon to the extension and plugin. Because, if nothing else, *I WANT IT!!!!*

I keep seeing recommendations for the board/card game “Splendor”. Can someone please tell me more. What is it and why is it so good?

I like my car. It’s a massive privilege to own it. But wow is car ownership expensive and annoying and borderline scammy.

Today I’m having a small plastic triangle replaced.

£140!

Not covered under warranty because the old part broke off and was lost. Despite it being REALLY obvious that it just broke off for no reason.

I probably should just adjust my expectations of how much anything car-related costs.

Yay! I finally got a Turbo Admin browser extension update out.

This is for all the #WordPress folks who start up lots of new sites and get annoyed by:
– The Welcome Panel
– The Help guides on the editor screens
– The Choose-a-Pattern modal on the New Page screen

The “Auto-remove block-editor welcome screen” option now removes all of these things automatically! On ALL your WordPress dashboards!!

Update to v1.14 in your browser, or try it out at https://turbo-admin.com/

Anyone want to play Scrabble?

Start here and send me a link:

https://words.pico.games/