Tag: Plugins
My Return to the Customer Support World
Anyone who tells you doing customer support is easy, is either lying, naive, or insane…or some combination of all three. It’s a hard role that will try your patience on...
Plugin: WP e-Commerce Status Board
A while back I wrote about integrating WordPress plugins with Panic’s Status Board iPad App, and while the plugin has been soft launched for about a month while I listen...
New Features and the Tyranny of the Default
It’s happened to all of us at some point or another. We see the shiny ‘Update’ button on our WordPress dashboard, phone, or other platform with excitement and can’t wait...
Plugin: Simple Notices for Responsive
I’ve been using it for quite some time, but the other day I just pushed a new plugin to Github that users of the “Responsive” WordPress theme might find useful....
A Call For Changelog Transparency
The other day I was notified by the iOS App Store that two of my apps had available updates. I always get excited when updates come. “Is it new features?...
The benefits of WordPress actions and filters
As a WordPress plugin developer, the 3 most important things I put in my code are: Translatable Text (__, _e, _n, etc) apply_filters do_action Why are those the most important,...
Integrating Status Board with WordPress Plugins
Recently, Panic (The software company behind popular OSX Apps Coda and Transmit), released an iPad app called Status Board. I don’t, myself, own an iPad but I know a lot...
Why Building Plugins for Others can be Hard
For those who don’t know, I’ve been developing WordPress plugins for about 5 years. While it started out as some random small time stuff, it’s recently increased in scale with...