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Richard Bell

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Director, Designer & Web Developer (Laravel/WordPress) @maplerockdesign #jackofalltrades Type 1 diabetic 🩼

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If you baked a ton of HTML β€œhelpers” into your Laravel codebase instead of using straight up HTML this was a dumb decision. So glad I never went down this route 🀭

10.03.2026 09:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who wants a talk… How to fight the block editor and get it to do what you want πŸ˜‚πŸŒŠ

24.02.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So we are building our first block theme. Yesterday was a breakthrough in discover a group is just a container div. Then when you apply row/stack it’s just applying flex to it πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Always thought it was doing something clever. Why not name things properly πŸ˜†

19.02.2026 09:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Top work on that talk mate πŸ’―πŸ’ͺ

05.11.2025 06:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Doing some office chair research what are folks saying?

13.10.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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03.10.2025 07:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can I send you some sites to build for fun πŸ˜†πŸ˜…πŸ˜œ

30.08.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Blog post incoming… When web hosts sell out and turn to πŸ’© Happens every ten years or so πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

27.08.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean isn’t this filed under it depends? Not built anything bespoke that’s ever sat and not evolved. Unplugged from the internet maybe but β€œlive” and accessible to all - no?

27.08.2025 20:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’― I’m woeful at maths if only I’d of paid attention at school πŸ˜‚

14.08.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WordPress Round Table: Open Discussions for All Users & Developers, Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup Join us for a relaxed and inclusive WordPress Round Table Meetup! Whether you’re a WordPress beginner, developer, designer, site owner, or agency pro, this is your space t

If you’re into #WordPress, whether you’re a developer, designer, site owner, or just curious, come along to the WordPress Round Table meetup.
It’s open conversation, not presentations. A chance to share, learn, and chat!
meetu.ps/e/Pdq4M/ggh6...

16.07.2025 06:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Received my first AI website critique for a new build today. That can be filed in the bin πŸ—‘οΈ

09.07.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Laravel at scale is completely different beast πŸ˜… Especially when picking up a legacy build with little idea how it pulls together… Making progress ⏳

08.07.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bitbucket.. You need to upgrade. $3.30 a month. Thanks for upgrading $16.60 a month. How’s that worked out πŸ˜…

12.06.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Accessibility. Backup. Secure. Sleep Easy, Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup **Accessibility** (1st session) The HTML anchor feature in WordPress allows users to create internal page links, but it can unintentionally create accessibility barriers. T

I’m on a bit of a mission to get folks offline and meeting in real life again.
WordPress chats, real conversations, good speakers, and maybe a pint after, all happening at the next #Cheltenham #WordPress #Meetup.
Come for the code, stay for the community. Free to join.
www.meetup.com/cheltenham-w...

12.06.2025 07:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spent a good couple of hours trying to build a site with 2025 and full site editor. Got fed up and pulled a rough hybrid site together in an hour. FSE really does over complicate things so so hard to work with. Sure I could work with it. Just really feels like something that I won’t enjoy πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

09.06.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Had to kill a bunch of homebrew stuff to get it to work. Probably me but deffo not a one click install thing πŸ˜›

08.05.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now changed to php versiob to 8.3 as I don’t think Imagick is supported with 8.4. phpinfo claims to be still be 8.4. What a crock of shit πŸ’©

08.05.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Installed Laravel Herd and as expected it’s not as easy as the docs makes out πŸ˜‚ Absolute tosh that it installs Imagick and it works out of the box πŸ“¦

08.05.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Working on a cool little Laravel app which will mean the death of a legacy classic asp system that harks back to my college days. Amazing how far tech has progressed in (say quietly 20+ years). ps. How am I 40 this year? 🀯

08.05.2025 13:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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File Uploads | Livewire A full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs.

Anyone ever got this working with local storage? I call bullshit on this chunk of documentation. laravel-livewire.com/docs/2.x/fil...

11.04.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Been working my way through this laracasts.com/series/react.... Really great series but I’m still sticking with Vue πŸ˜… Helps with custom block stuff though πŸ’ͺ

11.04.2025 07:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DJ Premier Classics Playlist Β· Mamischieber Β· 128 items Β· 23K saves

Only taken me 40 years to work out that DJ Premier is behind every 10/10 hip hop beat 🀯 open.spotify.com/playlist/40d...

10.04.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WordPress driving me insane today. Do we add this to my theme.json or to the css. Why can’t making websites get easier with time πŸ˜…πŸ₯²

08.04.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds good! I had a nose at your theme.json/css so makes sense how it works and I wasn’t going mad πŸ‘

07.04.2025 09:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great talk both! Can you shed any light on setting up nice block spacing? Are you doing this with css or theme.json πŸ‘€

07.04.2025 08:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Really enjoying pulling together custom blocks. Feel like its a nice solution for those elements/components that are specific to a site that you want rigid styles but flexibility to edit. Actually not that complicated? Toggle styles/visibility of stuff and away you go πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

26.03.2025 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Built my first custom block this afternoon πŸ‘Œ Need to learn react then πŸ˜† Who thought { test && showthis } was nice syntax I want vue πŸ₯²

24.03.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Made some more progress on this yesterday. Getting closer to launch. So hard with your own stuff. Really aiming for it be as easy to use as possible with minimal amount of options/choices πŸ™

16.03.2025 10:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plugins 27 now inactive. Down to 16 of which I can probably remove 3/4 more with a bit more work. So much jank out there 😜

11.03.2025 15:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0