AppSumo’s Digging Into WordPress $15 Deal + Giveaway
For today only, AppSumo is giving away copies of the new version of Digging Into WordPress by Chris Coyier for only 15!! If you don’t remember, I reviewed the first version of the book over a year ago. It’s still one of the best books I know of for WordPress development. What’s new in version...
Read more…Review of the Social Signup Plugin
A few weeks ago, the creators of the Social Signup Plugin contacted me about doing a review of their plugin. While I don’t normally do review requests, the plugin actually sounded like something one of my clients needed, so I decided to check it out. From their website, they describe their plugin as: We decided...
Read more…Which Content Management System Should You Focus On?
The web is a fantastic place filled with everything anyone could ever want. The problem becomes though, is that there can be too much to choose from and we often suffer from choice paralysis–where we freeze up and are unable to choose anything at all. Choice is not something lacking in the development world either...
Read more…Working With WordPress 3.0′s Custom Post Types
Just last week I finally got the chance to try the new custom post types that came with WordPress 3. For some reason, I never thought about using them because I was so used to using custom fields for everything. After setting up some pre-made templates for a few clients that used custom post types,...
Read more…Becoming A Better Developer For 2011
It’s time for the New Year to begin so we all know what that means – an excuse to learn and become something better than we already are1 For the holiday months, I’ve spent a ton of time learning, reading and trying out new coding techniques to find out what works best. Every site I...
Read more…Beginning WordPress Development: A Look At Common Functions
WordPress is both my favorite blog and CMS platform ever created. It’s easy to use and customize, and there’s basically nothing that can’t be done in it. If you don’t have a copy of WordPress, you can download the latest version here in order to follow along with this tutorial. One of my favorite things...
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