If you're a WordPress developer, migrating a finished development project can be one of the trickiest parts. There's moving parts in many places that have to be taken into consideration, and migration is (unfortunately) where WordPress actually could use some improvement. However, it's a necessary evil - one that I've done almost daily for a few years now. I've developed a nice system to…
I love using WordPress' built in custom post types. I've used them for sliders, directories, galleries, and pretty much anything else I can think to use them for. The one gripe I have, however, is that I can't manually set the order of the posts. Just like typical blog posts, I have to arrange them by hacking the dates to order them correctly.…
So you've gotten your new website up and ready to go - and you're chomping at the bit to add some delicious content. But don't jump the gun just yet - there's a few things you need to do before you start releasing your new site to the masses. 1. Change your Permalinks Right now when people try to view your blog all they…
OK – so I’ve tallied up the results from Tuesday and came up with some really interesting results. So, I’m going to do something a little fun. Here are your favorite plugins as determined by the comments, my favorite plugins, and the top 5 plugins from the WordPress repository; let’s see how they match up (plugins aren’t in any order – just the top…
Seeing all the fun plugins you guys posted to the site today has reminded me of a topic that I’ve both seen published on other sites as of late and been pondering myself lately – the authors. I’ve co-created a plugin, and it’s currently residing well in the plugin repository, but it hasn’t been all fun and games. I’ve been very lucky on this…
It’s definitely possible to make a living doing custom WordPress plugin and web development, but I don’t think it’s possible to make a living just building plugins and asking for donations. Do you feel that users are ungrateful for your work?Not really ungrateful, no, but I definitely think that some are blissfully ignorant. I imagine most folks don’t have an appropriate idea of the…
My old site was all about me writing stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing, but I know that I’m not the only guy out there doing this – I love learning from other people about things that I’d never known about otherwise. Unfortunately, StumbleUpon is devoid of good WordPress articles (lots of theme pimping, though), and sometimes you just want to learn,…
OK… so let me say first off that it’s not totally my fault that I didn’t get to finish my session last week. The internet access in the condo we were staying in was nothing less than horrible (it was a great condo otherwise, but let’s just say that if it was online it didn’t get done very fast). Mount on top of that…
Post them here! I'll put mine up live. WP-Supercache - cache your site to be digg-protected and avoid traffic spikes. Increased Sociability - Catches Digg and StumbleUpon users and gives them a call to action.