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Extending WP_Query
December 16th, 2012 at 12:46pm | 6 CommentsI’ve had the pleasure of contributing a couple of WordPress (WP) snippets to Elliot Richmond’s WP Snippets Til Christmas advent calendar this holiday season. Today’s snippet happens to be one of my contributions and I’d like to expand on it a bit more here. read more »
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Commercial WordPress Plugins
November 19th, 2012 at 9:00am | 1 CommentAs promised, I’m responding to Matt’s comments at PressNomics on selling WordPress (WP) plugins and laying out my philosophy and beliefs on the subject. Commercial plugins help or hurt WP? I’m summarizing, but during his interview, Matt essentially said that designs have more value in being rare, charging for them makes them rarer, so it ... read more »
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PressNomics Conference Recap
November 15th, 2012 at 2:33pm | 2 CommentsPressNomics was the best conference I’ve ever attended. Held last week in Phoenix, it was the inaugural conference for those in the business of WordPress (WP). Previous to this, Web Directions North had been my favourite conference. So why did PressNomics take the top spot? I’m passionate about building web-based product businesses. Most conferences I’ve ... read more »
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Custom Table for WordPress Custom Fields
November 1st, 2012 at 10:22am | 5 CommentsI just read Tom McFarlin’s thoughts on building web apps with WP and my comment started to run long, so here I am, writing a blog post. I agree with Tom, WP can make a great foundation for an app. I chose to use WP when I started building WP App Store and it gave me a ... read more »
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WordPress Best Practices: Global functions vs. classes
May 25th, 2012 at 11:21am | 2 CommentsA couple of months ago I started a thread on the wp-hackers mailing list. I wanted to know whether the WP’s core team intended to use PHP classes or sets of global functions with global variables going forward. I prize consistency above all else in my coding and wanted to follow their lead. Here’s what I posted: ... read more »
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Dandelion: Git Deployment over FTP
May 4th, 2012 at 3:10pm | No CommentsDandelion is an awesome deployment tool I adopted recently. When you run dandelion deploy from the command line, it automatically determines what has changed in your Git repository since the last deploy and adds, updates, or deletes just those files over FTP, SFTP, or Amazon S3. Kudos to Scott Nelson for his awesome work on this. Packaged as ... read more »
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Founder Inner Conflict: Engineer vs. Entrepreneur
February 22nd, 2012 at 11:27am | No CommentsWhen working on a project, I constantly find myself at odds with…myself. It’s a battle between the engineer in me wanting to write ideal code and the entrepreneur in me who just wants it working. The engineer wants ideal code, while the entrepreneur is fine with it being hacked together as long as it works ... read more »
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Podcamp Halifax 2012: WordPress Workshop
January 22nd, 2012 at 9:04am | No CommentsI’m running the following session at the Podcamp Halifax unconference today: WordPress Workshop After a 5 min intro including what’s new in the latest release of WordPress (and what’s coming in the next version), I’ll ask attendees what they’d like to hear. Do you want me to show you how to install WordPress? Maybe you’d ... read more »