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WordPress, fixing Chrome’s Admin Bar glitch - CSS & GPU compositing : barrd.dev Fixed WordPress Admin Bar glitches in Chrome by replacing background-attachment: fixed & using specific transitions instead of transition: all.

WordPress fixing Chromes Admin Bar glitch CSS & GPU compositing

Fixed WordPress Admin Bar glitches in Chrome by replacing background-attachment: fixed & using specific transitions instead of transition: all.

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I know that station! 😄 🚆

“Break a leg” sis, you'll smash it!!! 💚

Home - Bristol WordPress People Hello 👋, and welcome to Bristol WordPress People, the WordPress community for Bristol and the surrounding area. Whether you’re a blogger or a business owner, a developer or a designer, or even if you’...

🚀 We've launched a brand new website!

A fresh online home where you can find event info, connect with us & the community and stay up to date with everything we're doing.

Take a look, bookmark it and let us know what you think. Huge thanks to @kinsta.com for hosting. 🙌

👉 bristolwordpresspeople.org

A WordPress meetup talk in Bristol where Rob Morrisby presents ‘Building Your Own AI Tools from WordPress’ to an engaged audience, with presentation slides visible on screen.

A slide from the talk explaining vector databases: Vector databases store text content alongside its meaning in a contextual space etc...

Great event last night: 'Building your own AI tools from WordPress'. Huge thanks to Rob Morrisby for the inspiring talk and engaging Q&A session afterwards. 🙌

For a recap here's a link to the slides;
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Atomic Smash | WordPress & WooCommerce agency, Bristol We're the WordPress / WooCommerce agency that will improve your website to help you achieve your online goals faster.

Elementor Developer Required

Atomic Smash are looking for a super-speedy Elementor developer.
Is that you — or do you know someone they should talk to?

Contact Piers Tincknell;
Website: atomicsmash.co.uk
Email: piers@atomicsmash.co.uk

WordPress, renaming an established custom ACF block : barrd.dev Step‑by‑step guide to rename established custom ACF blocks in WordPress: Update files, block.json, field groups, Db content & related styles.

WordPress, renaming an established custom ACF block

Step‑by‑step guide to rename established custom ACF blocks in WordPress: Update files, block.json, field groups, Db content & related styles.

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Building your own AI tools from WordPress, Tue, Feb 3, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup **Off-the-shelf AI widgets are easy, but limited. This session shows how to build your own AI-powered tools from your WordPress site — giving you full control over data, pr

Want full control over your AI-powered tools? 🚀 Next Tuesday, 3 February, join Rob Morrisby for a session on building your own AI tools with WordPress. Boost privacy, data control and creativity for smarter client projects. Don’t miss out!

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#WordPress #Bristol

It's time for the Selkirk Grace.

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be Thankit.

Slàinte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#Scotland #BurnsNight

Building your own AI tools from WordPress, Tue, Feb 3, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup **Off-the-shelf AI widgets are easy, but limited. This session shows how to build your own AI-powered tools from your WordPress site — giving you full control over data, pr

Want full control over your AI-powered tools? 🚀 Join us for a session with Rob Morrisby on building your own AI tools from WordPress! Learn how to enhance privacy, data control and creativity for smarter client projects. Don't miss out!

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#WordPress #Meetup #Bristol

Roy Batty's inception date shown on a screen in the movie "Blade Runner"

Happy 10th B'day Roy!

#TearsInTheRain #BladeRunner #SciFi

Your memory is astonishing, it'll be in there... waiting, patiently, for the day you can get back on top of it. Here's a toast to us all, the day we can put aside foolish things and do that which makes us happy. “Slàinte”

... and a good morning to you too Sister.

Gaelic, apparently, is not my strong point - ah well, I tried. 😅

Ta for the corrected version. 🤗

Secure localhost with no warnings using mkcert & BrowserSync : barrd.dev Secure local development environment with mkcert and Gulp/BrowserSync setup, no HTTPS security warnings, just a trusted localhost working site.

Secure local development environment with mkcert and a Gulp / BrowserSync setup. No HTTPS security warnings, just a trusted localhost working site.

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Had to look up how to pronounce that :) “E-ha wah”... apparently.

Hi Hélène, I can totally relate to the comic sketch, as I was watching it (the movie) in the cinema many years ago, the exact same thoughts sprung up in my head too. 😂 Especially with the language caption text.. Papyrus again... [sigh].

Thank you for sharing! 🙌 🙏

You are most welcome good sir and a very Happy new Year to you - hope you recover soon! :P

Calendar A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

As seen in `Hacker Newsletter #776` - useful for those of us that still use paper & pens.

If you print this page, you’ll get a nifty calendar that displays all of the year’s dates on a single page. It will automatically fit on a single sheet of paper of any size.

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Bonne année Hélène! 🥳 🎉

... you knew what I meant 😜

- Happy New Year Sis, hope '26 treats you magnificently! 😘 x

Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree : barrd.dev Git worktree, run multiple branches in parallel directories to juggle features, hotfixes and testing without stashing or constant checkouts.

___ // Happy New Year \\___

First post of 2026

Git worktree, run multiple branches in parallel directories to juggle features, hotfixes and testing without stashing or constant checkouts.

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I'm still shocked by how long we've all known each other, very surreal... 😉 😅

Festival founder 'deeply proud' at being made MBE Findhorn Bay Arts founder Kresanna Aigner has been awarded an MBE in recognition of her service to Moray.

Well, I never. 'Sanna is an old and dear friend of [checks notes] - 40 years... Very proud of her. 😊 🙌 👏

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Findhorn Bay Arts founder Kresanna Aigner awarded MBE in King’s New Year’s Honours List

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WordPress ACF blocks: Simplify the editor with slide-out field panels : barrd.dev Upgrading ACF blocks to API v3 for WordPress 7.0 iframe editor. I explain why minimal previews beat full renders for faster, cleaner editing.

Last article of 2025.

Upgrading ACF blocks to API v3 for WordPress 7.0 iframe editor. I explain why minimal previews beat full renders for faster, cleaner editing.

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Happy Solstice! ✨

Here’s to the return of the light and the release of my new single, Wintersmith.

Head to www.shirleybarrmusic.com for all relevant links ❄️

#terrypratchett #wintersmith #independentmusic

Go SIs!!! 🙌 👏 💚

Festive Bristol WordPress People logo with snow and holly over a night-time photo of Clifton Suspension Bridge lit up against the dark sky.

Merry Christmas!

Huge thanks to our sponsors Kinsta, Defended.net, 34SP, Atomic Smash & TCN and to all our amazing members.

Wishing you a joyful, restful festive season! 🎄

Thanks Hélène, gave me a smile.

WordPress, safely outputting SVGs without fighting PHPCS : barrd.dev Safely render SVGs in WordPress by creating a custom wp_kses based escaping function that passes PHPCS, keeps security intact & preserves code.

Safely render SVGs in WordPress by creating a custom wp_kses based escaping function that passes PHPCS, keeps security intact and preserves code.

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