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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 June 3, 2022

Jubilee Crown Papercraft – and how I made it

To celebrate Queen Elizabeths Platinum Jubilee I designed a little papercraft version of her crown. In fact, I’ve recently gotten into making papercraft toys, both building, and designing them. Most …

Ben October 5, 2021

Randomness with PHP

When I was making my generative art I needed to generate a lot of random things. The simplest way to do that with PHP is to use the rand() function. …

Ben September 28, 2021

Creating Generative Art with PHP

These last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with Generative Art, using PHP. You can see the evolution of my latest series on Twitter. Generative Art is creating artworks through programming. …

Ben June 22, 2021

How to get a list of all WordPress Blocks in the Editor

Early on in the development of the new Gutenberg editor I asked how to get a list of all the blocks available in the new editor, then today Keith Devon …

Ben June 14, 2021

Take Control of WordPress Plugin and Theme Notifications

Plugin notifications have been a problem in WordPress for a long time now. Last week I saw a conversation on Slack where a developer said he thought they were getting …

Ben May 3, 2021

New WordPress Plugin: Translate Words

Last week I had a theme customer who wanted to translate some words on their website. The changes they wanted to make were small, and so I wanted a simple …

Ben March 26, 2021

Creating a Twitter Maze Bot

I recently had the idea to make a Twitter Emoji Maze bot, so I tweeted my idea and it was suggested I write a tutorial about how I made it. …

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 …

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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 …
More Projects

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Recent Posts

  • Jubilee Crown Papercraft – and how I made it
  • Randomness with PHP
  • Creating Generative Art with PHP
  • How to get a list of all WordPress Blocks in the Editor
  • Take Control of WordPress Plugin and Theme Notifications
  • New WordPress Plugin: Translate Words
  • Creating a Twitter Maze Bot
  • Fixing Gutenberg Image Floats
  • Twitter
  • Github
  • Dribbble
  • Mastodon
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