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

Alternate Title: How WordPress Can Fix Social I went to the breakout NYC PandoMonthly Event this by Pando Daily past week. It was a pleasure watching Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda), doing what she does best: interviewing one of my heroes Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) all about WordPress, how

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

I had the privilege Tuesday night of speaking to some of the greatest WordPressers in the world at the Official WordPress New York Meetup. It was a true honor. If you missed the performance or  would like to review the slides, feel

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

When building a WordPress plugin it’s important to know where your plugin sits. An early plugin I release relied heavily on several files inside the plugin directory. Nothing wrong with that, only that at the end of the day, the

I’m always referring back to what’s in the WordPress global $post variable. It’s useful to know what’s inside when doing pretty much anything from building a plugin to a theme… Now I won’t have to var_dump-ing it every time I