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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Helpppp…. Now considering if OpenAi Api is a neat solution to a problem 🤦‍♂️ Got to be better than a manual copy and paste job right?

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Any else feel like AI is making them dumb 😢 I need to write some Vue for some new functionality. In my head it should just work instantly why would anyone sit and write this stuff 🤷‍♂️🤭

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just spent the morning debugging and getting to the bottom as to why a clients site is broken… Turns out they’ve vibe coded their own db integrations that’s fucked everything up. Can I charge x10 hourly rate 🤭

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I made a thing… Everything outside my comfort zone but you’ve got to start somewhere right? www.instagram.com/reel/DckxqAE...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I just want an access token for the Instagtam Api. Can I figure it out… Nope. Too old for this 😜

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So here’s the refresh I’ve been working on. Wanted something more modern and that is fully mine 🧡 maplerockdesign.co.uk/blog/reintro...

We’ve had a refresh text with mountain silhouette

Path with text saying What’s your destination?

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Anyone familiar with TinyDesk? Might start a review series. Nelly Furtardo… 1. Jim Beanz = G 2. Daughter on creative direction 3. Questionable wet tshirt 🤷‍♂️ 4. Rediscovered Do it recently = Bop

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

6Music is class today ❤️🎧

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Well didn’t start the week planning a full of brand/logo rethink. But here we are ⏳

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If your WordPress sire is not up to date on 7.02. YOU REALLY NEED TO UPDATE IT NOW ⚠️‼️

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My venture into the print world… Maybe it should be my next blog… Spent most of this week bringing it back to life. Learning about cap tops and how these things tick 🥰 Steep learning curve

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Here’s the thing I wrote on A.I. www.richard-bell.co.uk/posts/lets-t... @rosswintle.uk made me post it 😂

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Shall we talk (rant) about A.I 🤖

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Should I start using this platform a bit more 🤷🏼‍♂️ Not sure.. Have a blog post on my thoughts around Ai. Can’t decide if to post?

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Who wants a talk… How to fight the block editor and get it to do what you want 😂🌊

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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 🤦🏻‍♂️ Always thought it was doing something clever. Why not name things properly 😆

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Doing some office chair research what are folks saying?

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Blog post incoming… When web hosts sell out and turn to 💩 Happens every ten years or so 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Elliott Richmond @elliottrichmond.co.uk · 16/07/2025

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...

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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

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Received my first AI website critique for a new build today. That can be filed in the bin 🗑️

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Elliott Richmond @elliottrichmond.co.uk · 12/06/2025

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...

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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

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Installed Laravel Herd and as expected it’s not as easy as the docs makes out 😂 Absolute tosh that it installs Imagick and it works out of the box 📦

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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? 🤯

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

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File Uploads | Livewire

A full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs.

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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

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DJ Premier Classics

Playlist · Mamischieber · 128 items · 23K saves

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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 😅🥲

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Built my first custom block this afternoon 👌 Need to learn react then 😆 Who thought { test && showthis } was nice syntax I want vue 🥲

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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 🙏

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

When you give client a text box instead of two… things like this happen. Might call myself the WordPress doctor. Taking shit themes and knocking them into shape 👨‍⚕️

Store opening times mixture of dash and to

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Anyone know where I can get breakfast on the way to the office 😆🐎

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

One thing that annoys me with my front end stuff is that I’ve never truly nailed vertical spacing between elements always ends up a mess. Should I just use utility classes and be done with it or is there a better way 🤪

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Overheard today. I’m not sure why I’m using Canva your stuff is so much better I should be using you guys for more stuff 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Got sign off on the rebuild of a legacy asp system today. Really can’t wait to get started! Proper busy at the minute Really enjoying myself after a tough few months 👌

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Making progress on this. Only thing I can’t quite nail is the outline on complex images. Hopefully share more stuff now I’ve got OBS sorted for screen recording 🙏

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Started work on another WordPress rebuild today. Say its again keep things simple…. Like using a require to include two lines of code absolutely unnecessary abstraction. How do people work like this 🤣🌊

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Going back to my talk in January. Keep it simple. Themify definitely does not tick this box. When you try and be everything to everyman. You can’t be simple. Not the way websites should work imo. End of rant.

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Latest thing that winds me up is “I’ve” made this with ai… Well you haven’t have you 🤣

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Another day of getting frustrated with my ability to grasp maths and logic. Why did I decide to do this job again? 🤣

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Cracked outlining and offsetting fonts finally. Wanted to do this for ages. Apologies for the lazy screen grab 🤣 Just need to build out the UI now ❤️

Screen grab of proof of concept of custom text vinyl stickers

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Great talks at last night WordPress meetup. Thanks @bell.bz and @elliottrichmond.co.uk. Nice mix of development and soft skills 🙏

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Has anyone successfully figured out or done anything similar to offset path in Illustrator but with php/javascript? 🤨

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Elliott Richmond @elliottrichmond.co.uk · 23/01/2025

As developers, we sometimes have to accept complexity. However, as @richard-bell.bsky.social pointed out, it’s a gentle reminder for us not to lose sight of the principles of KISS. My simple isn’t necessarily your simple. Great talk - thanks, Rich! #WordPress #Meetup

Slide showing hammer and cracking an egg, Is this really the right tool for the job

Slide and Richard Bell explaining the principles of KISS: keep it simple stupid

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Finally got round to penning my 2024 wrap up; KissPress was launched, a drag racing road trip round Scandinavia with a bit of award winning web development thrown into the mix too! www.richard-bell.co.uk/posts/2024/ 📖

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2024 Wrap Up

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Richard Bell @richard-bell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This mornings fun. Try and deploy my year in review. For some reason Netlify doesn’t want to play. Everything I hate about modern development 😢

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