What Would Hop Do

  1. Blueskys, Substacks and Mastodons, Oh My!

    A basket holding a bunch of eggs
    (Created with the assistance of ChatGPT)

    I was recently asked if I recommended moving to Mastodon or Bluesky, given that Bluesky is experiencing a big influx from X right now. I thought I’d answer here to share with a wider audience.

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  2. Empowering OpenMedia’s Digital Journey

    OpenMedia logo

    OpenMedia is a community-driven civic engagement platform that educates, engages, and empowers Internet users about digital rights. Hop Studios is proud to support them in their mission.

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  3. How (and Why) We Use AI in Web Design and Web Development

    A woman in an artificial landscape working on a screen surrounded by screens and images suggesting web development, presided over by a virtual rubber duck representing AI

    Why yes, we did use AI to make this image.

    Created with AI assistance from DALL•E

    At Hop Studios, we promise that we will use AI tools ethically and for ethical goals. We will not avoid their use simply because there are questions as yet unanswered about them – part of why we place ourselves in the forefront of technology growth is so that we can help explore these waters and navigate them for our clients – but we will do so always remembering that it is the user, not the tool, that is accountable.

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  4. Does a PHP version requirement mean you have to update your EE or Craft content management system?

    An ominous sunset

    Photo by Patricia Jekki on Unsplash

    The version of PHP installed on your server is about to sunset, and you’re panicking. You already know that you can upgrade your PHP version by flipping a toggle or sending an email to support, but what effect will this have on your CMS (Content Management System), your third-party add-ons, any other services you’ve installed?

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  5. WWHD - Common Problems with Updating Add-ons from EE2 to EE3

    Here at Hop we have spent a fair amount of time getting old add-ons working with new sites.  And while many of you have upgraded to EE5, there are still a surprising number of sites still running on older versions of EE, often because of a lonely neglected plugin that’s got them stuck in the past. Old add-ons aren’t actually that hard to upgrade, and we’ve put together a small list of critical things to watch out for when modernizing an old add-on.

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