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Test Your Own Work: Officially On Mayer

January 16, 2014 / Tom

dog fooding can sometimes give you the monday feels (as one of my dog demonstrates)

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I firmly believe that developers should be dog fooding their own work.

This isn’t to say that I don’t believe that assembling a team of beta testers is unimportant – on the contrary – but if you’re building something, and the only people who have experience using said product are people other than you, then I think that’s a problem.

So as of today, I’m proud (if not a little bit embarrassed) to be officially test-driving Mayer – my next WordPress theme that I’ve been discussing for sometime.

Developers Need Help Marketing WordPress Themes

January 15, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you hang around the WordPress Community long enough (that is, those people who are involved in working on WordPress or building something on WordPress in some way), you’ll notice that we all have a tendency to aim to build the best thing possible – whatever that may be.

At least, that’s what we claim to be doing.

And I’m just as guilty of this as the next person.

But let’s face it: developers need help marketing WordPress themes. Perhaps designers do, too. And let’s not forget plugins or other add-ons.

Basically, I think that we get so involved with the community of which we’re a part, we forget about the market and the terms in which they think. We’re busy trying to help one another other, perhaps even impress one another, and even working to try to out-do each other (I mean, come on, that is competition, right?), that we end up marketing our products in the same way every single time.

And you know what I’m talking about.

Adding Post Pagination Attributes in WordPress

January 14, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Be sure to checkout this comment to see why adding title attributes may not be a good idea.

When it comes to working with pagination in WordPress, it’s relatively easy to manage:

There is pagination for index and archive pages.
There is pagination at the single post level.

Each of which usually consists of doing the following:

If you’re on an index or an archive page then you’ll use `get_next_posts_link`, `next_posts_link`, `get_previous_posts_link`, `previous_posts_link`.
If you’re on a single post page, then you’ll use `get_previous_post_link`, `previous_post_link`, `get_next_post_link`, and `next_post_link`.

Enough enough, right?

But there are times in which you may want to add or enhance some of the attributes that are on each of these anchors.

Officially Partnering with Envato and WordPress

January 13, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the past several years, I’ve contributed a number of articles and premium tutorials to Envato specifically around WordPress.

The content has ranged from topics such as Strategies For Supporting WordPress Plugins up through my current series on Using WordPress For Web Application Development.

To say that I enjoy contributing code and content to WordPress is an understatement.

To that end, I’m proud to announce that I – or, more specifically, Pressware – is officially partnering with Envato and WPTuts+ in 2014.

My Day-To-Day: Lift App, Part 1

January 10, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to my phone, I’m one of those types of people who usually likes to keep a relatively clean home screen (and I even use folders in order to make sure I only have one home screen so I don’t have to swipe, but that’s fodder for an entirely other post).

Of course, this means that I keep myself relatively limited on the applications that I have installed and that I use. I’m not one for much having anything more than what I need when it comes to my phone.

Sure, I have just a small set of applications that are fun – who doesn’t? – but the majority of the applications on my phone serve a very distinct purpose for helping me get things done.

And one of the latest apps that I’ve been trying out recently is Lift App.

Granted, I’m one of those who’s willing to give each application a fair shake for about a month, so this may-or-may-not still be installed later this year, but so far, I’m really digging it.

Test Your Own Work: Officially On Mayer

Developers Need Help Marketing WordPress Themes

Adding Post Pagination Attributes in WordPress

Officially Partnering with Envato and WordPress

My Day-To-Day: Lift App, Part 1

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