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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.

A Reference of WordPress Utility Functions

August 8, 2013 / Tom

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One of the nicest things about Twitter is being able to curate who you want to follow, listen to, and engage with as far as your interests are concerned. Truth be told, I wouldn’t know half the people that I saw at WordCamp or that I’ve done interviews or hangouts with were it not for first meeting them on Twitter.

On top of that, being able to answer other people’s questions, chat with others who are far more experienced or who offer alternative ideas, or who provide useful resources is an big plus.

No complaints on something like that, right?

Case in point: Paul Underwood is someone that’s often sharing a lot of great material – not long ago, he shared a great post on a number of useful WordPress utility functions.

Not Everything Can Be a WordPress Plugin

Featured on 27 Good Things

Comment Images 1.12.0 Released

How To Enforce Adding a Single Widget in WordPress

A Reference of WordPress Utility Functions

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