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The WordPress Theme Customizer: When Live Preview Doesn’t Work

September 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’m currently working on a lengthy set of articles that are intended to provide an in-depth look at the WordPress Theme Customizer. Yes, there has been a lot of material already written on this subject.

Some of the best articles are:

Otto’s guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer
The comprehensive Codex article on the Theme Customization API
And an open source example of how to use the Theme Customizer

And though I’ve done work with the Theme Customizer in the past, there have been a few gotchas that I’ve found when trying to work with the customer starting from the ground up.

I don’t plan to document them all here, but if you happen to be working with the Theme Customizer and you’re specifically trying to get the “Live Preview” function working and it’s not, perhaps this will help.

September 17, 2013 / Tom

Yesterday, I share a bit about a Tumblr that was recently started focusing specifically on Developer Practices.

In short, the blog is nothing more than a collection of animated GIFs that are a humorous attempt to look the developer best practices. But based on some feedback, others want to contribute.

And I love that.

Blogging is Narcissistic (Except When It’s Not)

September 17, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that’s becoming more and more common is that certain critics are claiming that we’re becoming more and more of a narcissistic society with our constant sharing of things on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, and so on.

I don’t know if I observation really holds water or not – rarely are things black and white, so I’m sure it’s true in some cases – but I’ve never really considered blogging in and of itself of be narcissistic.

This isn’t to say it can’t be, but I don’t think that it – as a medium – is meant to feed that particular aspect of the human condition.

September 16, 2013 / Tom

There are two absolutely amazing things that the Internet has brought us:

Animated GIFs
Memes

And when you combine the two together, you get some seriously good stuff, right?

Category Sticky Post For WordPress 2.0 Now Available

September 16, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Just a little over a year ago, I released my WordPress Category Sticky Post plugin. The initial concept was simple:

Category Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific category archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for category archives.

And not a lot has changed since the first release.

Yes, I’ve made minor improvements here and there as evidenced by the changelog, but today I’m happy to officially release the second version of the plugin.

The WordPress Theme Customizer: When Live Preview Doesn’t Work

Blogging is Narcissistic (Except When It’s Not)

Category Sticky Post For WordPress 2.0 Now Available

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