Jason G. Designs

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Add LAMP Menu Items to the XFCE Applications Menu

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Recently I installed XFCE for a request to update one of my GTK themes. Anyway, another thing I needed was a way to start Apache and MySQL for my local WordPress install. I prefer to be able to start and stop these services rather than have them always on. So, I placed new items in a menu for this purpose.

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Is It Time to Update Your Home Decor?

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Right now Zazzle is having a sale of 15% off all of their products. Just recently, I opened JGD Home, a Zazzle store that is focused on home decor. Looking to spruce up your home with a new updated look? Here are collections of some of my throw pillow and tile coaster designs.

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How To Concatenate Conditionally Loaded Scripts in WordPress with Gulp

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I was going to do a formal announcement that The M.X. was going to use Gulp to manage the theme, but I might as well mention it as part of this tutorial. So, while working on this update, I was trying to figure out how to concatenate conditionally loaded JavaScript files together– specifically scripts that load as a result of turning “on” a feature in the Customizer. In this tutorial, I will describe how I did this task and why it may be useful if your theme design is set up a certain way.

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The M.X. logo

After about three years of development, The M.X. has finally passed the theme review process! I would like to thank all of my theme reviewers. They were incredibly detailed and found many things that I overlooked. Getting accepted into the WordPress theme repo does not mean that development is going to come to a halt. Many improvements are still on the way, including more Gutenberg updates and changes in functionality to make development easier.

Get it here!