I come across random techniques while working and decided to start blogging them... For me to find later, for others who may need them and with the hope to get some feedback.
There are some great posts and a fantastic wiki page explaining how to use AJAX in WordPress. But I haven’t found a quick plug-and-play tutorial. So here goes… The problem: A simple form that will give the visitor an input
The add_post_meta, delete_post_meta, update_post_meta, and get_post_meta functions are really useful. It’s the perfect place to store information about a post. Many plugins take advantage of this storage for determining whether a specific post/page needs the feature they are providing or
Still under development. It doesn’t handle images yet. Hence not publishing to the WordPress plugin repository. However. It WILL create an ePub of all the posts in a category when you save a post. If you have images in your
My #awesome twitter followers implored that I post this weekend. So here goes! For my current side project I needed to allow a user to upload a docx file and then continue editing it from their WordPress dashboard. I chose
I recently stumbled across this nifty gem in the WordPress Codex: Debugging in WordPress. Basically, php has ways to suppressing errors, and by default WordPress will do this for you as well. Why? Well, you don’t want everyone who stumbles
In case you missed it, there were 60 people on the waiting list… Here’s the talk I gave at WPNYC in April about Responsive Web Design. I spliced out my piece from the full video, but if you’d like what you
One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about Responsive Web Design is that sites built to be responsive take too long to load. We may have reached the age of broadband with our desktops but with bandwidth throttling and pay-per-byte mobile
Download and try it yourself A short while ago I stumbled upon an interesting Hacker News conversation… Intrigued by the challenge, I decided to implement the theory as a WordPress plugin for all to use. So here’s the gory details…
Edit: So, since this went up I got a full-time job… My plans are now to clean up the blog design and focus on side project that will benefit the community. At some point I may return to the long-sideways scroll
This script is a work in progress. In a nutshell: Media queries are great. They are especially effective when building responsive websites. But they can be difficult to work out so that they cover every scenario. Media queries work especially