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Apr 10 2015

Keeping Up on WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

With all the security issues coming up of late within the WordPress community, the new plugin for WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities seems like an idea whose time has come. It tracks…

Categorized: Blog · Tagged: plugins, security, WordPress

Feb 19 2015

Add Custom Post Types to Omnisearch

The Omnisearch module within the Jetpack plugin for WordPress seems like a dream come true. One search to rule them all! Amazing, right? Wrong! Omnisearch only searches posts, pages, comments,…

Categorized: Blog, Code Snippets · Tagged: code, developers, jetpack, omnisearch, WordPress

Feb 05 2015

Ready! Filter! Action!

At our WordPress Developers meetup on Feb 4, 2015, I did a presentation (including some live coding) about using WordPress hooks. I can’t stress enough how important I feel these…

Categorized: Blog, Meetups · Tagged: code, developers, hooks, WordPress

Nov 18 2014

WordPress 4.1 is in Beta and includes Juicy Tidbits for Developers

Normally I don’t get super-excited about new WordPress releases. It wasn’t that long ago that I didn’t even go out of my way to read up the new features when…

Categorized: Announcements, Blog · Tagged: developers, WordPress

Sep 10 2014

Like defending the Internet, but feeling lazy?

Internet Defense League Cat Signal

Help Defend Internet Freedoms by Using a  “Cat Signal” on your Website Chris Reynolds has built a cool plugin for WordPress which will turn on notices from the Internet Defense…

Categorized: Blog · Tagged: plugins, WordPress

Sep 04 2014

“Shortcodes vs Widgets: Which One and How?” – Video of my WordCamp Boston 2014 talk

The video of my WordCamp Boston talk will likely appear on WordCamp.tv at some point in the future, but the Boston WordPress group has already posted many of the videos…

Categorized: Blog · Tagged: developers, shortcodes, widgets, WordCamp, WordPress

Aug 22 2014

Shortcodes vs Widgets: Which One and How?

Here are the slides and all associated file for my talk “Shortcodes vs Widgets: Which One and How?” given at WordCamp Boston on Aug 23, 2014. If you have issues…

Categorized: Blog · Tagged: code, developers, shortcodes, widgets, WordCamp, WordPress

Aug 16 2014

Creating Customizable Widgets for Unpredictable Needs

Slides and related code files from my “Creating Customizable Widgets for Unpredictable Needs” talk given at WordCamp Maine on Aug 16, 2014. If the embedded slides aren’t displaying correctly for…

Categorized: Blog · Tagged: code, developers, widgets, WordCamp, WordPress

Jun 05 2014

Developers Open Forum Meetup – June 4, 2014

Due to a last minute presenter cancellation, our June 2014 WordPress Developers meetup ended being an open forum. This led to a lot of great discussion among the 12 developers…

Categorized: Blog, Meetups · Tagged: custom queries, developers, mailchimp, rss, security, WordPress, WordPress books

Mar 14 2014

New WordPress Meetup Hub Page

I’m trying out the WP Meetup Plugin from the folks over at Nuanced Media. It connects to Meetup.com to pull a list of upcoming meetups and display them on your…

Categorized: Announcements, Meetups

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