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• Building WordPressFreelancer.com: Fun with the latest, greatest web dev tech

  July 14th, 2010 at 6:32am | 2 Comments

  Last 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 »

  Tags: CSS Media Queries • CSS3 • Fluid Layout • HTML5 • Web Fonts • Wordpress

• Fix WordPress “Missed schedule” error on Media Temple (dv) / Plesk

  July 18th, 2009 at 10:37pm | 9 Comments

  After 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 »

  Tags: bug fix • media temple • plesk • server admin • web-development • Wordpress

• Twitter Importer for WordPress

  February 5th, 2009 at 7:12pm | 35 Comments

  Update: 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 »

  Tags: data control • PHP • projects • twitter • web-development • Wordpress

• Migrating from Typo3 to WordPress

  November 5th, 2008 at 10:00am | 9 Comments

  One 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 »

  Tags: blogging • CMS • database • migration • typo3 • web-development • Wordpress

• Speaking at BarCampVancouver2008

  September 27th, 2008 at 6:13pm | 1 Comment

  Today 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 »

  Tags: barcamp08 • barcampvancouver08 • conference • unconference • web-development • wordcamp08 • wordcampvancouver08 • Wordpress

• WordPress as a CMS: Posts as content elements

  July 31st, 2008 at 4:11pm | 1 Comment

  I 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 »

  Tags: CMS • templates • web-development • Wordpress

• Redesigning zenutech.com

  April 8th, 2008 at 11:12am | No Comments

  Last 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 »

  Tags: semantic markup • smarty • web-design • web-development • Wordpress

• WordPress 2.5 “Zeldman” Coming Soon

  January 22nd, 2008 at 12:42am | 2 Comments

  Original illustration by Sergio Villarreal. There’s been quite a bit of buzz about the redesign of the WordPress Admin for the 2.5 release due in March, that I can only assume will be code named “Zeldman”. Although the small improvements with each release have helped, the WordPress Admin has needed some attention for a while ... read more »

  Tags: usability • wdn08 • web-design • web-development • Web-Directions-North • Wordpress • zeldman

• Redesigned and more

  November 5th, 2007 at 4:58pm | 7 Comments

  In a few weeks it will be exactly a year since I redesigned this site. It really has become an annual event. This time I’ve redesigned it but also rebranded and added new features. Rebranded I really liked the domain brad.touesnard.com. I mean come on, firstname.lastname.com is pretty sweet. That is unless your last name ... read more »

  Tags: AJAX • facebook • flickr • lastfm • magnolia • safari • usability • web-design • web-development • Wordpress

• Introducing LinkedIn hResume for WordPress

  March 1st, 2007 at 11:40pm | 12 Comments

  In the little bits of spare time I’ve had in the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a new plugin for WordPress. LinkedIn hResume for WordPress grabs the hResume Microformat block from your LinkedIn public profile page allowing you to add it to any WordPress page and apply your own styles to it. ... read more »

  Tags: hResume • LinkedIn • Microformats • web-development • Wordpress