Slides and links for my presentation on getting started with WordPress for the Tallahassee WordPress Meetup.
Solving The WordPress Template Hierarchy Puzzle: Author Archives!!!!
A simple explanation of which templates WordPress uses to display author archives–the list of posts by an individual author.
Solving The WordPress Template Hierarchy Puzzle: Conditional Tags for Posts and Pages!!!!
If you’ve been following my series you will know which templates you can add to a theme for displaying specific posts or pages, but also that for small changes, I recommend using conditional tags instead. Why add and keep track of a template if you just need to make one change? In this post, I will give you a simple, easy to use understanding of the conditional tags that you can use in WordPress to test for various single post views.
Solving The WordPress Template Hierarchy Puzzle: Posts and Pages!!!!
Continuing the series on understanding the WordPress Template Hierarchy, covering which template in a WordPress theme is used for displaying single posts and pages.
Solving The WordPress Template Hierarchy Puzzle: Home vs Front Page!!!!
WordPress themes can have two different template files “home.php” and “front-page.php” which seems confusing as front page and home page are two terms that are often used interchangeably. Understanding the difference in WordPress is essential to understanding the template hierarchy.
Using Masonry In WordPress 3.9!!!!
WordPress 3.9 now includes a current version of Masonry, which means that step is no longer needed. That’s pretty cool on it’s own, but it’s especially cool for me since I wrote the patch for updating it, which is one of the reasons why I am credited as a contributor in WordPress 3.9. Enqueueing Masonry is a little diffrent based on if your initialization script written for Masonry 2 or 3.
Solving The WordPress Template Hierarchy Puzzle: Taxonomies!!!!
Continuing my series of posts where I explain in clear, simple language each individual part of the template hierarchy. Today, I cover taxonomies, including categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
WordPress Hooks Without Seperate Callbacks!!!!
How and when to use WordPress’ utility functions instead of your own callback function for a filter or action, to set a filter to true, false, empty or null.
Solving The WordPress Template Hierarchy Puzzle: Custom Post Types!!!!
This is my first of a series of posts where I will be explaining clear, simple language each individual part of the template hierarchy. Today, we begin with custom post types.
Is The Pilot of HBO’s Silicon Valley About Starting With Why?!!!!
The main character of HBO’s Silicon Valley, thinking he’s dying in face of interest in his product. Finding out why his product transforms him into a man on a mission. Simon Sinek’s theory on starting with why is important for marketing, but it might be just as important for the entrepreneur or content creator as it is to whoever they are selling to.