Jason Chafin

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  • Build menus with the WordPress Navigation Block

    Build menus with the WordPress Navigation Block

    WordPress in the Gutenberg era treats navigation menus differently than it did pre-Gutenberg. We no longer register menu locations via our theme and build menus…

  • Use a Shortcode for ACF Repeater Field in a WordPress Block Theme

    Use a Shortcode for ACF Repeater Field in a WordPress Block Theme

    I’m in the process of migrating a WordPress site I built in 2017 (i.e., pre-Gutenberg), into a new site with a Block Theme. The original…

  • Joshua Tree and the Mojave Desert

    Joshua Tree and the Mojave Desert

    I visited Joshua Tree National Park, the town of Joshua Tree and the Mojave Desert in the Summer of 2022 and the Spring of 2023. The Spring trip…

  • Add comments to any website with Utterances

    Add comments to any website with Utterances

    One of my TODO list items for building this site was to enable comments. In my search for a way to implement them, I came across…

  • Responsive sidebars with Eleventy

    Responsive sidebars with Eleventy

    This is a link post.

  • JavaScript Split

    JavaScript Split

    Looking back on my Github repos, I came across an interesting artifact of my web development journey, JavaScript Split. One of my first assignments after joining…

  • My journey to Linux

    My journey to Linux

    I grew up in Southern California in the 70s and 80s. When I was in elementary school, Steve Jobs donated an Apple IIe to every elementary, junior…

  • On Building with Eleventy

    On Building with Eleventy

    Note: Since writing this post, I have moved back to WordPress. The sentiments expressed here are still valid. I still love Markdown. But WordPress provides…