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Registering A Custom Post Type

by scott | September 10, 2020 | Building a Plugin, Custom Post Types, WordPress | 0 Comments

The Mission: To register our own custom post type in WordPress. Background I'm currently developing new sermon management and Livestream plugin for churches with the hopes of selling it as a digital product at church.agency. WordPress is a content management system...

#5FTF

by scott | August 28, 2020 | WordPress | 0 Comments

What is #5FTF? Ever heard of #5FTF? If you haven't that's okay... it's just only the coolest thing in WordPress. In it's simplest form WordPress is the product of hundreds of thousands of user's across the globe developing the largest open-source CRM that powers over...

Day Four: Unity Skinning & Web Deploy

by scott | August 21, 2020 | 30 Days of Gaming, GameDev | 0 Comments

Today we dressed the simple 3d assets with some borrowed 2d sprite assets. And might I say it's looking good. So good in fact that a 1.0 web release is ready! Skinning At the time of creation our game was created with 3D assets, however moving forward the plan is for...

Day Three: Enemies and Explosions

by scott | August 20, 2020 | 30 Days of Gaming, GameDev | 0 Comments

Thor I have no idea what I'm doing okay. I'm just trying to make a video game. So today we added in spawning enemies and destruction of the player object if it gets hit too many times. Spawning Enemies So to spawn in an enemy in unity we do the follow. Create an empty...

Intercept WordPress API Requests

by scott | August 20, 2020 | WordPress, WordPress API | 0 Comments

Scenario: Say you want to intercept a response from any WordPress API call before it gets returned to the user? For example, you want to block /users/ route or append additional content to a /posts/ response. Simply call the rest_pre_echo_response filter and you can...

Day Two: Control and Pew Pew

by scott | August 19, 2020 | 30 Days of Gaming, GameDev | 0 Comments

In today's update we learn how to move on on our own free will and fire a laser! Movement Today we learned to go fast! And by fast I mean go Up, Down, Left, and Right with player environment boxing..... now onto the code for the player class. using System.Collections;...

Day One: Learning the UI and Movement Sorta

by scott | August 18, 2020 | 30 Days of Gaming, GameDev | 0 Comments

I've set off on an adventure to learn how to create and develop video games! Apart of my journey, I'm personally challenging myself to write a blog post every day for 30 days to track my project and reflect on my progress. Don't consider this a tutorial, or even...