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Making The Switch To Postmatic

November 21, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this week, I decided to install the latest Postmatic beta on this site in order to give it a try. For those who aren’t familiar, Post Status has a great write up about it and you can watch the promotional video for it below:

In short, I think that anyone who manages a blog with any number of subscribers and commenters wants an easier way to manage their comments.

Maybe not. Maybe that’s just a few of us. But I know that I spend a significant portion of my day in my inbox, and I know that I try to respond to every comment that I get on this blog.

Sure, some fall through the cracks and that sucks, but having everything aggregated into email should alleviate that problem, right?

Yes or No To WordPress Frameworks?

November 20, 2014 / Tom

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I don’t know if there’s ever been a time in WordPress-history where we’ve had such a plethora of options from which to choose as it relates to WordPress frameworks.

We have anything from drag-and-drop page builders to code-level abstractions that aim to make it easier to work with a variety of APIs.

But is using a framework always the best idea? Maybe. In my latest article on Envato, I weigh one of the pros and cons of using WordPress Frameworks in order to help determine if this is something that you may want to use or not.

A WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Generator

November 19, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Since the release of the latest version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, the top two things that people have requested are documentation complete with examples, and a generator to ease the pain of having to replace certain tokens throughout the boilerplate’s codebase.

And I’m all for it – I’ve even committed to begin providing this material in early 2015 (and not just via the project’s website, but a few other channels, as well – more on that later). The awesome thing about open source is the contributions that can come from other people.

Sometimes these come in the form of patches or pull requests, other times they come in the form of extensions, enhancements, and other types of projects that help improve the initial project.

It’s awesome, isn’t it?

Use Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress

November 18, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Every now and then, developers will ask – or will be asked – what is one of the most important things I should learn in order to get involved when writing code?

Obviously, this assumes that the person already knows how to write code, likely knows how to upload a site or compile the source code into an executable or any of that, but maybe they’re looking for something to amp up their development process.

Whatever the case, the rest of this content is for those who have been working with WordPress for a while, but are looking for some additional tools to help improve their development-fu. If you’re an intermediate to an advanced developer, this may not be of much interest.

But for the rest of you, I can’t recommend source control and differential utilities enough when amping up your development.

Don’t Be Afraid To Ask For Help

November 17, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

This weekend, a fellow tweep and developer shot me a short question that I think hits home for anyone who’s involved in development regardless of skill level:

Question for you, do you find it hard to ask for help when you get stuck on some code?

Perhaps I should’ve just easily said “Don’t be afraid to ask for help!” but my short, 140-character-or-less answer was:

no. early in my career i did, but not anymore.

But this is one of those things that’s so common for many of us and since Twitter greatly limits just how much we can say (which is a good thing, in some cases), I thought it worth talking a little bit more in-depth about it

Making The Switch To Postmatic

Yes or No To WordPress Frameworks?

A WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Generator

Use Source Control and Diff Tools with WordPress

Don’t Be Afraid To Ask For Help

Current Projects