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I’m Ben Gillbanks. I make WordPress things at Pro Theme Design, animation things at Brush Ninja, and I co-author a WordPress newsletter called MasterWP. I’m a Dad, a video gamer, and a creative.

Latest Blog Posts#

Ben March 1, 2021

Fixing Gutenberg Image Floats

Last week Keith Devon asked if anyone knew how to fix Gutenbergs floated image blocks. For some reason the floated image gets wrapped in a containing div. I’m not sure …

Ben December 4, 2020

How to fix “Invalid default value” MySQL error on WordPress database

Recently I wanted to duplicate a WordPress database table but I couldn’t because I got the error ERROR 1067 (42000): Invalid default value for ‘post_date’. It took a bit of …

Ben November 26, 2020

Fathom Analytics: A Privacy First Analytics Solution

Over the last few years privacy online has become a big topic. Lots of news stories about companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google tracking us have raised awareness of privacy …

Ben August 23, 2020

Pixel Avatars; a Privacy first Gravatar replacement

Recently Justin Tadlock posted on the WP Tavern about the WordPress Privacy teams plans for local avatars in WordPress to improve privacy options in core WordPress. I’ve been thinking about …

Ben June 14, 2020

WP Cafe – Developing Themes with Gutenberg

Last week I took part in the first WP Cafe with Keith and Mark from Highrise Digital. The subject was Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor, and talking about the work …

Ben June 4, 2020

Learning is hard, and so is React

This tweet from Kelly Vaughn caught my eye recently. It came a couple of days after another tweet from Brad Touesnard who said “I have run out of empathy for …

Ben May 29, 2020

Does WordPress Need a Grid System?

Justin, from WPTavern, has recently posted an article considering whether WordPress needs a grid system. As a designer, I am inclined to say yes. I have been using the Layout …

Ben October 4, 2019

It’s not all bad for WordPress themes – is it?

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how themes, as we know them, are going to be ending, and then went on holiday. I wasn’t expecting such a big …

Ben September 22, 2019

The End of WordPress Themes is in Sight

It’s been a long time coming. I currently earn a living selling WordPress themes. In a couple of years that won’t be the case. I might be earning something from …

Ben September 13, 2019

Toolbelt – WordPress Privacy and Speed

Over the last couple of weeks I have been building a WordPress plugin called Toolbelt. It’s a collection of helper modules that enhance your WordPress website, and it’s inspired by …

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Projects#

Website

Brush Ninja

Brush Ninja is an animation creation website. You can create hand-‘drawn’ animated gifs in your browser using this fun, easy-to-use animation creator tool. Brush Ninja lets you export animations to …

Games

Pixel Peak

Pixel Peak is my 2017 entry into the LowRezJam game jam. I wanted to make a simple skiing game and this is the outcome. I have written a bit about …

WordPress Theme

Label

Label is a stylistic theme created specially for art and fashion bloggers. With a distinctive masonry powered layout, a fullscreen post slider, and a classy vertical header – it’s sure …
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Welcome

Binary Moon is the online home of web developer Ben Gillbanks. This is where I talk about various web development and video gamey things – plus whatever else I currently find interesting.

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Recent Posts

  • Fixing Gutenberg Image Floats
  • How to fix “Invalid default value” MySQL error on WordPress database
  • Fathom Analytics: A Privacy First Analytics Solution
  • Pixel Avatars; a Privacy first Gravatar replacement
  • WP Cafe – Developing Themes with Gutenberg
  • Learning is hard, and so is React
  • Does WordPress Need a Grid System?
  • It’s not all bad for WordPress themes – is it?
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