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alexstandiford

@alexstandiford@fosstodon.org

Shaking up affiliate program management with Siren. Helping companies re-imagine pay for performance programs. Usually found in #WordPress circles.

I Lived the RV-Life for 4 fantastic years. I talk about WordPress, off-grid, & RV life. I use this account to interact with people, but everything I write is syndicated from my website. #nobots

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alexstandiford, to random
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Off to a good start for my birthday. Just crushed Bennett in a game of the Pokemon Trading Card Game ๐Ÿ˜‚

alexstandiford,
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@jackmcconnell thanks, Jack!

alexstandiford,
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@cdils thanks Carrie! And welcome back to the fedi!

cdils, to random
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@BobWP Turns out I created an account on this server awhile back and forgot about it. Here I am. :)

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@cdils @BobWP ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

alexstandiford, (edited ) to random
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Which best describes the kind of thing are you trying to sell on your website? Iโ€™m thinking about doing a webinar on selling things on your website, but Iโ€™m curious on what most of yโ€™all are sellinโ€™ to help me decide on where to start.

#eCommerce #buildInPublic

alexstandiford, to random
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The most exciting thing about Siren to me? Iโ€™m JUST getting started. Launch will be a solid start, but I have so many ideas on how it can help people develop partnerships online that Iโ€™m having trouble prioritizing them.

I am calling Siren an โ€œaffiliate pluginโ€ because thatโ€™s the easiest way to describe it, it undersells it.

The truth is, Siren is a whole new category unlike anything youโ€™ve ever seen. Iโ€™m not competing with other affiliate plugins, I am superseding them.

#WordPress

alexstandiford, to ai
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Holy crap, GPT-4o is WAY faster than GPT-4.

#ai

alexstandiford, to random
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Setting up deployment and update flows for Siren today. definitely not my favorite part of development, but I will be glad when itโ€™s all set up.

alexstandiford, to random
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I got to fly the big kite this afternoon! Little guy kept getting ripped up. I had to adjust the birdle a bit, but once I did I was flying high!

The big one is a lot slower, but it pulls you a lot harder, so itโ€™s more of a workout, and still reeeeeeally fun.

#Kiting

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Shout out to my science teacher neighbour who blocked me on WhatsApp 6 months ago unblocked me last night, rang me at 11:45pm, text me to say "The Aurora Borealis is outside right now and I don't want you to miss it", sent me a photo of said Aurora Borealis ABOVE MY HOUSE, then blocked me again.

(I didn't see them)

alexstandiford,
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alexstandiford, to wordpress
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So, I built Siren's documentation portal, and the entire site is built using WordPress and the full-site editor. It's my first complete build using FSE, so I wrote up a reflection on it.

TL;DR It's REALLY gettin' good, y'all.

https://alexstandiford.com/articles/blog-posts/i-built-a-knowledge-base-using-the-block-editor-and-whoa

alexstandiford,
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@mjr what device was this?

alexstandiford,
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@pch heck yeah! ๐Ÿค˜

alexstandiford, to random
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Iโ€™m using OBS, and @kdenlive to record all of my documentation tutorials for Siren. Itโ€™s been my setup for a while now. I use @inkscape and @GIMP for art assets and and SVG tweaks. I actually think the only that this is not FOSS that I used to build Siren is PHPStorm ๐Ÿ˜…

rhyswynne, to wordpress
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NEW BLOG POST:

Can WordPress run id Software's classic 1993 FPS shooter Doom? Of course it can, here's how I did it using WordPress Playground.

Sorry if you were busy today....

https://dwinrhys.com/2024/05/08/can-wordpress-run-doom-of-course-it-can-heres-how/

#wordpress #doom #canitrundoom

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@rhyswynne I love this ๐Ÿ˜….

alexstandiford, to discgolf
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Rainy day for disc golf league. Glad Iโ€™ve got an umbrella now!

#DiscGolf

alexstandiford,
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@pch huh? Lol

helligbird, to gameboy
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My case from when I was little. The yellowed a bit with the years, but it still works fine, from when things were made to last and tech wasn't so finicky. I didn't have many games, so I beat all the ones I had. Mostly Super Mario Land series, Wario Land, R-Type, Metroid, etc. That Prince of Persia game was also good fun and very difficult. I don't collect for the console anymore. It's just a token of my childhood now.

alexstandiford,
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@helligbird I played the shit outta Wario Land 2 when I was on the bus as a kid

alexstandiford, to wordpress
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Something I frequently need in Siren is a flowchart to help explain how different affiliate programs work, so I'm putting together a flowchart block. Making good use of the LeaderLine library and core's group block, as well as an existing card block I already had laying around. Really loving how much less code I'm writing to do simple stuff like flex layouts with full site editing.

https://anseki.github.io/leader-line/

alexstandiford,
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@Htbaa Iโ€™ve been kinda blown away by how well it works. Feels really solid.

alexstandiford, to wordpress
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I'm still getting used to using a full site theme for WordPress. But WOW today was a win. I'm working on setting up the documentation portal for Siren, and literally just created a custom post type, and that was the extend of the code. I'm able to build all of the template layouts for the post type in the FSE context.

This is REALLY cool!

cr0ybot, to random
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Instead of getting work done, I spent all day backfilling case studies for web, app, and game projects on my website. Time well spent regardless.

alexstandiford,
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@cr0ybot always feels so good to backfill like that.

alexstandiford, to wordpress
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Iโ€™m working on the launch documentation for Siren. Iโ€™m pretty comfortable with video, so I decided a great place to start is by building a getting started course using Lifter LMS. I think thatโ€™ll translate into text fairly fast.

#buildinpublic #WordPress

alexstandiford, to wordpress
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I didn't come up with Siren Affiliates overnight. It represents years of experience, both as a developer and a user of Affiliate programs.

Siren's unique affiliate program building capabilities makes it possible for your affiliates (and any other partner) to work together in ways that are simply not possible on other platforms.

Can't wait to launch!

https://www.sirenaffiliates.com/

video/mp4

alexstandiford,
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@pch you should join my email list. Iโ€™m giving launch details on there and will be offering an exclusive deal when it launches

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