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Releases, tutorials and the story behind each project: how the plugins and apps are designed, built and shipped.
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AccessNow Learn: a block theme for course sites
AccessNow Learn is a free WordPress block theme for course sites: lesson headers that change by unit, four styles, and a menu visitors use…
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Building a guitar course to show off my LMS
A free beginner’s guitar course, built to show off a WordPress LMS: research, a tuner that never phones home, and the five bugs a…
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AccessNow LMS 1.0: simple online courses for WordPress
AccessNow LMS 1.0 is a free WordPress LMS plugin: courses, lessons, quizzes, progress and certificates, with no page builder or outside service.
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Five things my LMS needed before launch
Blocks, finding students by name, spreadsheet export, quiz explanations and screen reader support: the five things my WordPress LMS needed before launch.
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What a review of my WordPress LMS Plug-in found
A line-by-line review of my WordPress LMS plugin found finished students locked out, blank answers marked right, and no way for other plugins to…
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Letting people test my games before they’re out
Handing out test versions of an Android game is easy. Taking them back is the hard part. How my games now switch their own…
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AccessNow Site Replica 1.1: no missing plugins after a move
Site Replica 1.1 warns when a backup holds plugins or themes linked in from elsewhere, so a moved WordPress site never arrives with them…
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Teaching a help desk Japanese, French and German
My karate app runs in four languages, but its help desk spoke one. What it took to translate it, from Japanese search to screenshots…
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Moving off a page builder: our karate school’s rebuild
How we moved our karate school’s site off the Thrive page builder: what we replaced, how we kept every address, what nearly went wrong,…
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AccessNow Site Replica 1.0.4: faster large databases
Site Replica 1.0.4 backs up databases full of big posts and page-builder data far faster, and is the first update to arrive through WordPress.org.
