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Improve Your WordPress Development Skills – An Online Class

July 19, 2013 / Tom

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A couple of weeks ago, I teased Pressware to share the direction that I’m refocusing my efforts on WordPress-related projects.

One of the things that I’m hoping to begin doing more of – aside from building products for others – is to offer code reviews, consulting, and things like that.

For those of you who have read this blog for sometime, you know that one of the things that I enjoy the most about blogging, WordPress, and development is being able to help others (and be helped by others).

So, to that end, I’m currently looking to gauge interest in hosting an online class specifically for beginner WordPress developers who are looking to improve their WordPress development skills, but have no direction or strategy for where to start.

Backing Up WordPress To Dropbox

July 19, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

There are a lot of services out there that provide stellar experiences as it relates to backing up your WordPress installation, but one plugin I’ve always been fond of is WordPress To Dropbox.

In short, the plugin is a free plugin with a couple of premium upsells one of which I have found to be completely worth the purchase.

Additionally, this is one way that you can keep costs low for backing up your site if you aren’t able to pay for some of the premium services or if you’re already paying a pretty penny for Dropbox.

My Time On Week In WordPress

July 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

For those of you who know Matt Medeiros, you know that he’s the guy behind The Matt Report (which I was on a couple of of months ago) and also the guy behind a new show: This Week in WordPress.

Each Friday, he and a couple of guys in the WordPress community get together for a Google Hangout and talk all things WordPress – some news related, some design related, some development related, but ideally something for everyone who’s interested in WordPress.

This Friday, I’ve been invited to be a part of the show and I’m really looking forward to it.

Properly Setting Up WordPress Cron Jobs

July 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

As it relates to scheduling events in WordPress, there’s a lot of articles that already exist on setting up a WordPress cron job, but – and for what I believe to be a number of reasons – there’s a surprising lack of clarity around the topic.

Of course, I could be wrong – maybe I’ve just been looking in all of the wrong places.

Whatever the case may be, this is something that I’ve been dealing with in a couple of projects, and I thought I’d capture my notes here if, for no other reason, than to reference in the future.

A Look at the WordPress HTTP API

July 17, 2013 / Tom

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When it comes to working with WordPress, one of the lesser discussed aspects of the platform is the WordPress HTTP API.

This isn’t to say that people don’t use it – they obviously do – and this isn’t to say that people don’t actually understand it – because I’m sure they do – but I don’t think it’s evangelized or discuss enough.

In fact, it looks as if there’s very few tutorials about the API available on the web. So, to that end, I’ve opted to do a bit of a practical crash course in the API on WPTuts+ over the next few weeks.

Improve Your WordPress Development Skills – An Online Class

Backing Up WordPress To Dropbox

My Time On Week In WordPress

Properly Setting Up WordPress Cron Jobs

A Look at the WordPress HTTP API

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