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The WordPress Theme Customizer: Adding a New Setting To An Existing Section

August 13, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Since the release of the WordPress Theme Customizer, my team and I have been more and more interested in using it as a way for users to make changes to the appearance of their theme without the use of the dashboard.

As powerful as the dashboard is, the “Appearance” section creates a disconnect between what the user toggles (or selects, or inputs, etc), and what they see on the front end.

The Theme Customizer mitigates that issue.

The thing is, there are a few nuances that come with implementing it in your theme. Though I’m not trying to cover everything here, the point of this post is show how you can introduce a new setting into an existing section.

Not Everything Can Be a WordPress Plugin

August 12, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I – and most developers, designers, and implementors – love about WordPress is how easy to is to implement new functionality through the use of plugins.

Yes, I’ve shared at length my thoughts on the plugin economy and it’s not coming from a point of disdain. Of course not. It’s coming from a place of appreciating something, wanting to see it being made better, and simply sharing gaps in experience.

But a second thing that I’ve begun to notice is that people want plugins for everything – even things that I believe should remain core business logic.

Featured on 27 Good Things

August 9, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

This week, I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Mike Dariano of 27 Good Things for nine different things that I recommend people read, watch, and/or use.

Comment Images 1.12.0 Released

August 9, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this week, I released a relatively significant update to Comment Images that introduced the ability to globally enable or disable comments on posts across the entire site.

Seriously. What if I told you?

Since that release, I’ve received a couple of comments and several emails all of which were asking for a few minor improvements to the functionality so, late last night, I rolled out another relatively significant update to the plugin.

How To Enforce Adding a Single Widget in WordPress

August 8, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

For a recent project, I needed to introduce functionality that added a widgetized area to the header of the blog, but only allowed a single instance of a specific widget to be added: the “Search” widget.

Since the dashboard for the widgetized areas are driven the by jQuery and jQuery UI libraries, the implementation is almost completely written in JavaScript, and although I know there may be some criticisms about only allowing a certain type of widget in a widgetized area, here’s how you can enforce adding a single widget in WordPress.