I’ve been using WordPress since 2005 and writing plugins ever since. I’m a core contributor, community member, WordCamp speaker, and plugin author. With over 10 years of WordPress experiance, we can get you on the right track.
Tag: WordPress
A Chance To Learn Something New
In my last 4 years as a software developer for GoDaddy, I’ve had the chance to work on one of the largest scale WordPress sites that I’ve ever worked with....
Removing another plugins hooks
The Problem Recently, I was working on a support thread where the user was attempting to override the default functionality of Easy Digital Downloads by using the remove_action() function. This...
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...
An issue for every commit
Over this past weekend at WordCamp Phoenix, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the 3/4 of the Easy Digital Downloads core development team. Pippin, Dan, and Chris traveled...
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...