At the end of the first day of this year’s WordCamp Orlando, WordPress lead developers Andrew Nacin and Mark Jaquith discussed the changing trends in WordPress core development. They addressed shifting focuses and shrinking development cycles as well as the major change in development strategy for the current 3.8 development cycle. Nacin pointed out that […]
10 wp-config Tweaks To Improve Your WordPress Site!!!!
My first post for WPMU was published recently and is in sharable list form! I detailed ten ways to improve your wp-config file to improve your site security and make your life easier. Read the article here.
Using The New Date Queries In WordPress 3.7!!!!
WordPress 3.7 added several cool new features, including the new date queries added to WP_Query. Date queries allow you to easily do some pretty cool things based on a post’s date. In this tutorial I will show you how to use them to show posts published one year ago, the most commented on posts in the last week and posts scheduled for tomorrow.
Co-Creating A Better Support Experience!!!!
My first article for Torque, Co-Creating A Better Support Experience was published today. The article is based on my experience working for Pods, and taking some inspiration from an awesome talk by Syed Balkhi of wpbegginer.com at WordCamp Birmingham 2013 and incorporates a lot of what I learned in school about participatory design. It’s always […]
Pods Tutorials!!!!
I recently helped design the new tutorials section for the Pods website, which features tutorials from around the Pods community. Right now it includes two tutorials I wrote, one on using Pods’ custom relationship fields, and the other is an eight-part series on using Pods to create a users directory.
Creating and Compensating For Fixed Height Headers!!!!
In Gethen, my new child theme for _Second Foundation, I created an option for fixing the header to the top of the page. Its pretty easy to do this with a little css “postion:fixed”, but keeping it from clipping the top of the page content is a little trickier. In a static html site you […]
Browse Free WordPress Plugins Like A VIP!!!!
The official WordPress plugin repository contains over 27,000 plugins. Separating the good from the bad as well as the good from the ‘was once good but no longer works’ can be a challenge. Opposed to the theme directory, the plugins are not actively reviewed by a large team of dedicated volunteer reviewers. This leaves the […]
Add A Slideout Sidebar To A Responsive Theme!!!!
Note: this is an updated version of my original post, with new and improved code and links to more examples. On any screen, not just the small-screen, getting your content front and center is important. One way to accomplish this is to do away with the once ubiquitous sidebar. Facebook, and other mobile apps have […]
Responsive WordPress Image Sizing With Foundation’s Interchange!!!!
Why serve big images, designed to be viewed on a big desktop monitor for a tiny mobile device?
One (Askimet) Key To Rule Them All!!!!!
If you’ve ever set up a WordPress multisite network using Askimet for anti-spam, you’ve probably been annoyed that there is no network wide setting. Turns out there is, in wp-config.php. All you have to do is add this in wp-config and you’re good to go: define(‘WPCOM_API_KEY’,’your-key’); It would have been nice to see a settings […]