Month: September 2025
Building a WordPress Plugin for the Block Editor
Recently I needed to create a new wordpress plugin to display the results of an API. I figured that it should be a relatively easy task. My initial issue was that a lot of the immediate results that I found for how to do it related to the old WordPress editor and not the new…
Amazon API Gateway 403 Bad Request
Today I spent several hours trying to get a new API on Amazon API Gateway authenticating with an API Key. I don’t always find AWS the easiest platform to work with. The documentation is often incomplete and not entirely well-organised. The documentation for API Keys is located here, and the process can be summarised as…
Grappling with Grav
In my search for a lightweight WordPress alternative which uses real CSS I stumbled across Grav. Out of the box I was quickly impressed with the ease of installation and the quality of the documentation. For some the use of markdown rather than a full WYSIWYG editor might be an issue, but I actually like…
Posting to Twitter using X API v2
Having successfully posted to Instagram using their API, I also wanted to post to X. I knew from memory that this would not be so easy. X uses oauth authentication, and in the past I have found this to be particularly problematic. A bit of searching turned up a couple of useful videos on youtube.…