For a while I was involved pretty heavily with the Ruby on Rails community. I did design consulting on a number of application interfaces and some frontend programming. Alas, those days have passed and I’m 100% WordPress and PHP focussed.
Now I like WordPress and PHP just fine but one thing I really miss from the
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Web Designer 191 is out (at least in Europe and will be on shore in North America shortly), and with it comes a feature article titled ‘Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme’ which I wrote most of. You can get it digitally on you iOS device through Newsstand and in Chapters in Canada. I have no
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I’m reorganizing my sites and their content. I’ll be putting all my future writing on WordPress over at WP Theme Tutorial. I’ll be covering a bunch of fairly deep topics so if you’re interested in learning more about how WordPress works and how to build projects with it go subscribe to the feed.
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Recently Adobe released Muse which is supposed to bring the world of web design to print designers. Sure I can agree that there are a lot of awesome print designers not building stuff for the web, but there are a lot of web designers not doing print work. They’re two different mediums that require
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One of the first things you should do when building a WordPress theme/plugin is turn on WP_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file. Turning this on will make sure that you get notices for bad functions, deprecated items in your files…Every theme/site I build has this flag set in development (don’t set it on the production server).
As
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As with much blogging this screencast is born of a rant about how WPMU Dev disrespects paying customers with their stupid WordPress admin notifications. After all the stuff that flies around about them plus the terrible usability and the long on promise short on delivery stuff regarding their plugins in their forums I’m not a
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UPDATE: I’ve taken a second stab at the topic on WP Theme Tutorial.
While I’ve mentioned it in my presentations on Mobile WordPress development I’ve never really expanded on my thoughts on building WordPress features in the theme functions.php file or in a plugin.
What’s the Difference?If you’re just starting out in WordPress you may not even
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Today we’ll look at a WordPress feature that many people just don’t know about. In all honesty I didn’t know about it till WordPress 3.0 came along and I wanted to add class names to my menus. There are lots of ways to clean up your dashboard and post editing screen and lots of ways
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We’re continuing on our topic of writing quality WordPress themes by looking at the Theme Check plugin. Theme check was originally developed to give people writing themes for the WordPress.org repository a way to check their themes for compatibility with the theme review requirements before they uploaded their theme for review.
If you’re not aware, when you
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Today we’ll look at a bug (yeah another one) in WP e-Commerce that deals with ajax product sorting. The short story is that if you use the drag and drop sorting of products while viewing all categories you’re screwed. Yeah that’s right you’ll get duplicate products and not all of the products will show up.
While
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