Tag: wordpress

  • WordPress, Genericons, Jetpack and you

    Here’s something I learned the hard way today. If you are using Genericons in your WordPress theme, and you’re enqueueing it like this: wp_register_style(‘genericons’,get_template_directory_uri().’/genericons/genericons.css’,false,$theme[‘Version’]); wp_enqueue_style( ‘genericons’ ); …you’re going to run into problems if Jetpack is enabled, because Jetpack uses the same method. Normally this wouldn’t be that much of an issue, but their version of…

  • WordCamp San Francisco 2013

    This year I went to WordCamp San Francisco. I didn’t take any pictures, but here’s one found on the WP Armchair stream where you can sort of make out my bald head. You can tell it’s me ’cause the water bottle. This isn’t going to be an exhaustive post. I’m glad I went but (and…

  • Cat Signal update

    I released an update to the Cat Signal plugin that fixes some issues that were introduced in the last update. If you’re using it, make sure you update before the campaign tomorrow. Internet Defense League Cat Signal

  • Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development

    I’ve got a new course up on Pluralsight that went live today. New course: Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development | the pluralsight blog.

  • CCG Manager

    CCG Manager

    CCG Manager is a WordPress plugin to manage your Magic: the Gathering or other collectable card game cards. It’s also my 10th plugin on WordPress.org. CCG Manager

  • New Pluralsight course: Introduction to WordPress

    New Pluralsight course: Introduction to WordPress

    My second course for Pluralsight goes live today. If you don’t already know, Pluralsight offers developer training videos and my first course, Introduction to WordPress Theme Development, was published in January. This course — Introduction to WordPress is a more general overview of WordPress and WordPress settings. I tried to pack it full with every…

  • Progress Bar 1.1

    A new version of my progress bar plugin is available. You can download it or follow the link to find out what’s new. I’ve added full documentation on the Progress Bar plugin microsite with examples of all the new shortcode parameters and options. Progress Bar 1.1 | Progress Bar.

  • This is why I read Chris Lema

    This is why I read Chris Lema

    If you asked me a year ago who Chris Lema was, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. My experience up to that point was a brief mention by my friend Josh at Event Espresso that his was a blog worth reading. Chris tweets a lot — one of my biggest turn-offs when I am…

  • Holy Botnet, Batman! How do I change my admin username?

    Holy Botnet, Batman! How do I change my admin username?

    You may have heard about the massive security threat toward Joomla and WordPress sites. (If not WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???) There are lots of posts around the web on the subject, but not a lot of answers to “well, how do I change my username from admin?” This post answers that question. Answer 1: You don’t…

  • Brought to you by Sublpress

    Brought to you by Sublpress

    This post is being written in Sublime Text thanks to a new package by Nicolas Dienstbier — who has a much cooler way of shortening his name than I do (what could I do? rnlds? Actually…) — called Sublpress. The premise of Sublpress is simple — use Sublime to manage your WordPress site(s). You can…