WordPress Webinar Series

If you ask any WordPress enthusiast why they like WordPress, you’re likely to hear “because it’s so easy.” It’s a response I’ve given many times myself. Aside from being easy to use, WordPress is powerful, flexible, and people use it in a myriad of ways. So if we’re being totally honest, WordPress is one complicated…

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Git + MAMP + SiteGround

For too long now I have put off the chore of getting my local development environment set up in a way that would allow me to use Git to push my code directly to SiteGround. I had tried in the past but always ended up hitting a stumbling block somewhere along the way. There is…

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Single use apps

Last month at work, I took on a new project; AppPresser. If you haven’t heard of it, AppPresser is a suite of plugins for WordPress that make it easy for site owners to turn their site into a native iOS or Android app. Making apps is something that I’ve wanted to do for several years, so…

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Plugin-A-Palooza entry: CC: Devs

This year for WordCamp Orange County, the organizers have put together an event called Plugin-A-Palooza. To enter you simply needed to come up with an idea for a plugin, write it and release it to the WordPress plugin repo by a certain date. When I first heard about it I thought to myself, “This is…

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Sometimes we all need a reminder

Well, here we are. It’s a Monday afternoon after a WordCamp weekend. I’m mostly caught up on my emails and it’s the time of day where my mind starts to wonder back to all the great things that took place over the weekend. This time it was WordCamp Orange County. There were some great sessions,…

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WordPress Community Summit wrap-up

A few months back I was absolutely humbled when I received an invite to a fairly exclusive event; The WordPress Community Summit. This was to be the first of its kind, invite only meetup/conference with about 100 people from the WordPress community in attendance. People from all over the globe were planning to attend. We…

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Another reason why WordPress kicks ass

I’m working with a client (who shall remain nameless) to help get their WordPress site up to date. They are currently running version 2.8.4, which is about 3 years out of date. I wasn’t sure how the theme or the plugins were going to handle the upgrades, so I obviously didn’t want to do the…

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Business aspects of WordPress plugin development

Last September I attended WordCamp Portland which was set up as an unconference. If you are unfamiliar with the term, an unconference doesn’t have a pre-scheduled list of speakers. At the beginning of the day there was a large whiteboard with squares drawn to create a grid of rooms and time slots. Anybody who had…

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WordCamp Portland – Round 3

One of my favorite WordCamp events each year is always the one up in Portland. No, not just because they had kegs of beer just inside the front door. Although that certainly didn’t suck. Their local WordPress community is awesome and invited in us outsiders with open arms. By the end of the first weekend…

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