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From Idea to MVP To Version 1.0 with The Snowball Project
The team behind the newly-formed non-profit The Snowball Project came to us with an idea. They wanted to build a web application that used peer-to-peer influence to encourage the unregistered to...
View ArticleCustom Block Icons with ACF Blocks
Creating custom Gutenberg/Block Editor blocks with ACF is a great way to provide WordPress users with the functionality of custom blocks without having to be familiar with Javascript and React. If you...
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Automating FTP Deployments with GitHub Actions
Deployment is the stage of the software development life cycle most likely to cause problems. Even if your deployment pipeline is perfectly set up, it’s the stage of the development process where any...
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Building Gutenberg Blocks with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) as a Stopgap
WordPress is a fantastic way to start learning to code. You rarely need to learn more than one new thing at a time in order to get building, and you can always find one new skill to learn (or improve)...
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Alpha Particle is expanding and looking for a WordPress Developer who can tackle some of our production WordPress work. This means building custom themes (either completely from scratch or Child...
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How to implement “Minor edit – do not update translation” as a default in WPML
We’ve been working on a large WPML implementation lately with quite a few translated pieces of content. If you haven’t used WPML before, you might not know that changing the contents of a page that’s...
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Building a WordPress Accordion Block, No JavaScript Required
In this post we’ll go over how to build a Bootstrap accordion as a WordPress block using Advanced Custom Fields. This is a useful approach for rapidly building WordPress blocks. It’s also a great...
View ArticleSOLVED: Laravel Sail – Could not find driver error
Laravel Sail is a great all in one development environment that allows developers to spin up Laravel applications quickly and easily using Docker. However, after picking up a recent project that I...
View ArticleEmbedding SVGs for Animation and Styling
SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics) are a great file format for making sure that images look good at any size! Because they’re defined with code, they can scale to any size but since they’re also an image...
View ArticleHow we keep up with WordPress
As Alpha Particle has grown over the years, we’ve gotten so many opportunities, made friends and even gotten clients from our connections to and in the WordPress community. Whether you’re starting an...
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