Richard Bell
@richard-bell.bsky.social
Director, Designer & Web Developer (Laravel/WordPress) @maplerockdesign
#jackofalltrades Type 1 diabetic 🩼
#jackofalltrades Type 1 diabetic 🩼
Doing some office chair research what are folks saying?
October 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Doing some office chair research what are folks saying?
Blog post incoming… When web hosts sell out and turn to 💩 Happens every ten years or so 🤷🏼♂️
August 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Blog post incoming… When web hosts sell out and turn to 💩 Happens every ten years or so 🤷🏼♂️
Reposted by Richard Bell
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...
It’s open conversation, not presentations. A chance to share, learn, and chat!
meetu.ps/e/Pdq4M/ggh6...
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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July 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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...
It’s open conversation, not presentations. A chance to share, learn, and chat!
meetu.ps/e/Pdq4M/ggh6...
Received my first AI website critique for a new build today. That can be filed in the bin 🗑️
July 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Received my first AI website critique for a new build today. That can be filed in the bin 🗑️
Laravel at scale is completely different beast 😅 Especially when picking up a legacy build with little idea how it pulls together… Making progress ⏳
July 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Laravel at scale is completely different beast 😅 Especially when picking up a legacy build with little idea how it pulls together… Making progress ⏳
Bitbucket.. You need to upgrade. $3.30 a month. Thanks for upgrading $16.60 a month. How’s that worked out 😅
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Bitbucket.. You need to upgrade. $3.30 a month. Thanks for upgrading $16.60 a month. How’s that worked out 😅
Reposted by Richard Bell
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...
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...
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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June 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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...
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...
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 🤷🏼♂️
June 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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 🤷🏼♂️
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 📦
May 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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 📦
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? 🤯
May 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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? 🤯
Anyone ever got this working with local storage? I call bullshit on this chunk of documentation. laravel-livewire.com/docs/2.x/fil...
File Uploads | Livewire
A full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs.
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April 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Anyone ever got this working with local storage? I call bullshit on this chunk of documentation. laravel-livewire.com/docs/2.x/fil...
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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April 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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 💪
Only taken me 40 years to work out that DJ Premier is behind every 10/10 hip hop beat 🤯 open.spotify.com/playlist/40d...
DJ Premier Classics
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April 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Only taken me 40 years to work out that DJ Premier is behind every 10/10 hip hop beat 🤯 open.spotify.com/playlist/40d...
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 😅🥲
April 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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 😅🥲
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 🤷🏼♂️
March 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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 🤷🏼♂️
Built my first custom block this afternoon 👌 Need to learn react then 😆 Who thought { test && showthis } was nice syntax I want vue 🥲
March 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Built my first custom block this afternoon 👌 Need to learn react then 😆 Who thought { test && showthis } was nice syntax I want vue 🥲
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 🙏
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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 🙏
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 👨⚕️
March 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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 👨⚕️
Anyone know where I can get breakfast on the way to the office 😆🐎
March 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Anyone know where I can get breakfast on the way to the office 😆🐎
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 🤪
March 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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 🤪
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 🤦🏻♂️
March 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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 🤦🏻♂️
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 👌
March 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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 👌
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 🙏
March 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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 🙏
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 🤣🌊
March 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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 🤣🌊
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.
February 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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.