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,…
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…
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…
Like defending the Internet, but feeling lazy?
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Big Announcement!
I made the following announcement today to the WordPress Meetup group I run here in the seacoast NH area. *** Since our first meetup in January 2011, our little meetup…