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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 »
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Image Crop Position in WordPress
November 29th, 2011 at 6:22pm | 19 CommentsI just submitted my first WordPress core patch today and have been receiving lots of positive feedback. It allows developers to set the crop position by specifying an array for the $crop parameter in the add_image_size function (see the Trac ticket for more details). WordPress 3.3 is at beta 4 at the moment, so it won’t make ... read more »
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Lessons learned from the Jigoshop – WooCommerce fiasco
August 26th, 2011 at 2:09pm | 8 CommentsHere’s the story: Once upon a time, Mike Jolley and Jay Koster worked at Jigowatt and among other things were core developers on an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress called Jigoshop. The plugin was well coded and was gaining momentum in the WordPress community. WooThemes was struggling to build their own e-commerce plugin, so ... read more »
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Building WordPressFreelancer.com: Fun with the latest, greatest web dev tech
July 14th, 2010 at 6:32am | 3 CommentsLast year I registered WordPressFreelancer.com with grand plans to build a directory of freelancers who work with WordPress complete with a job board and blog consisting of freelancer interviews. Once I sobered up, I realized I already had more than enough on my plate and that this probably wasn’t going to happen. Recently however, I ... read more »
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Fix WordPress “Missed schedule” error on Media Temple (dv) / Plesk
July 18th, 2009 at 10:37pm | 12 CommentsAfter a lot of debugging, I was able to figure out that Media Temple’s (dv) configuration was responsible for the “Missed schedule” errors I was getting in WordPress. By default, the /etc/hosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1 yourdomain.com yourdomain localhost localhost.localdomain To execute cron tasks, WordPress needs to post to the URL http://yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron. This isn’t ... read more »
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Twitter Importer for WordPress
February 5th, 2009 at 7:12pm | 47 CommentsUpdate: I’ve updated this importer to be a WordPress 3.0 plugin. Download it at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-importer/ Thanks to Stephanie for helping out. In an effort to regain control of my data, I’ve written an importer for WordPress which grabs all your tweets and inserts them into WordPress as posts. It allows you to choose the category ... read more »
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Migrating from Typo3 to WordPress
November 5th, 2008 at 10:00am | 12 CommentsOne of the sites I currenty help maintain at work is a private community site for employees of one of the largest restaurant franchises in the world. For the first year, our resident copy writer was the blogger. But recently, the client decided to hold a competition among it’s restaurant employees to become the next blogger. ... read more »
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Speaking at BarCampVancouver2008
September 27th, 2008 at 6:13pm | 2 CommentsToday was the first time I have given a talk since my honors thesis over three years ago. I’ve attended a few conferences in the past few years and I’ve really grown interested in becoming a presenter, sharing my experience and ideas. I’ve heard that BarCamp is a great place to start sharpening your presentation ... read more »
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WordPress as a CMS: Posts as content elements
July 31st, 2008 at 4:11pm | 2 CommentsI started writing a comment for the DevLounge article “Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS” but it turns out I had a lot more to say. I’ve been working with WordPress for a few years now and I want to share one of the toughest challenges I’ve personally faced when using WordPress ... read more »
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Redesigning zenutech.com
April 8th, 2008 at 11:12am | No CommentsLast week I launched the newest incarnation of zenutech.com. The last redesign was three years ago, used table layouts, a lot of image files, and as a result was really sluggish. It’s definitely not good when your site takes almost ten seconds to load and you’re marketing speedy web hosting. A fresh new design with ... read more »