Tag: WordPress
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How To Edit A WordPress Theme
This one will be short and sweet and right to the point. Have a WordPress theme that you downloaded or bought and want to modify? It’s super easy. WordPress themes are usually distributed as zip files, so unzip it. (It’s outside of the scope of this post to talk about GitHub, but I recommend making a private repository and unzipping the theme in there, so that you can track and save all your changes.) You should now have a directory with files inside that looks like this: Now go in and make your edits. As I have in other posts,…
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Automating WordPress Drudgery with Claude
This post — and admittedly my use of AI in general — is a bit of a late bloomer, but I’m hoping that someone somewhere will find it useful or inspiring. To back up a bit, here is some context about the current state of AI in Spring 2026: I think this stat probably sums up my industry the best: 90% of developers regularly use at least one AI tool at work I’ve been using AI at Arista for almost a year now: first Augment and now Claude. My team hasn’t gone too deep with agents yet, but it’s becoming…
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Here We Go Again: A Website Overhaul Story
Thirteen years ago, I started a blog in preparation for leaving my job and taking some time off to travel and explore. Gentleman of Leisure, Student of Life is actually still alive today, and I suppose will continue to exist for as long as Google wants to keep Blogger on life support. My very first post gives a bit of context and outlines my hopes for what writing could accomplish. Four years (and many adventures) later, I relaunched that blog as a standalone, WordPress-powered website that I controlled myself. I gave it a brief mention in my 2016 year-end wrap-up,…
