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Batch-convert Microsoft Publisher files to PDF before Publisher disappears in October 2026

Microsoft has announced that support for Microsoft Publisher ends on 1 October 2026, and Microsoft 365 subscribers will lose access to the application at that time.

I’ve accumulated around 850 Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files over the years. While I no longer use Publisher for new work, I didn’t want to lose the ability to view or print those documents once Publisher disappeared.

To solve the problem, I developed a simple PowerShell script that automates Microsoft Publisher’s own PDF export.

I’ve shared it in a GitHub repo for anyone who needs to do the same.

Rename Divi Projects – now compatible with Divi 5

Marketing image for Digital Shed45's Rename Divi Projects plugin. It reads: Unlock the full potential of Divi Projects and make your site truly unique.

I’ve released a new update for Rename Divi Projects, my plugin that customises Divi’s built-in Projects custom post type so you can use it for content that better fits your site (properties, case studies, books, albums, and more).

Divi 5 compatibility

The big headline: the plugin is now compatible with Divi 5, while continuing to support Divi 4.

If you’re moving to Divi 5 (or already there), you can keep using your renamed Projects setup and continue working with Divi’s project-related modules.

It will soon be available on the Divi Marketplace.

It is now also available on GitHub under a GPL v3 licence.

Fix for Scrum for Trello (for Chrome)

I use Trello a lot. Trello is a simple but powerful, kanban-inspired project management tool which allows you to create cards on lists to visualise what work you still have to do, work in progress and work that is done. I use it to manage most of my projects, and indeed most of my life.

A few years ago, a couple of developers released Scrum for Trello, a Chrome and Firefox plugin that adds aglie story points functionality to Trello. (Story points help you see the relative size of a task compared with the others.)

I use it all the time, but recenty it broke. This is what I did to fix it.

List WordPress posts alphabetically beneath category headings

Now, this is going to be a niche blog post.

For the last ten years, I’ve been blogging metal, punk, hardcore and rock music reviews at 195metalcds.com.

Besides the main list of reviews, I also created three pages to list the reviews by artist, genre and score. I updated these manually because when I started the blog I hosted it at wordpress.com which had limitations about which themes and plugins I could use. But ever since moving the site to my own paid-hosting account at SiteGround, I’ve wanted to write a plugin or child theme function that could update these three pages automatically. Well, now I have and that’s what this blog post explains.

You can view the code on GitHub.

Espanso text expander

*Editing the default phrases file for espanso in Sublime Text 4.*

If you are not already using a text expander application then I highly recommend that you start. It will save you hundreds, if not thousands, of keystrokes every month.

As the name suggests, a text expander application is a utility that runs in the background and looks out for you typing predefined phrases which it then replaces with usually a longer text version.

For example, when I type --@e, my text expander replaces this with my full email address: gareth@garethjmsaunders.co.uk, saving me 25 keystrokes.

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