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WP DB Migrate Pro – A Discount and a Giveaway!

May 6, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Brad Touesnard is the guy that’s behind several popular WordPress plugins one of which is the WP App Store, the other being WP DB Migrate Pro.

To say that he’s an accomplished and respected WordPress developer would be somewhat of an understatement.

He’s recently released the lastest version of WP DB Migrate Pro which I had the pleasure of participating in the beta test.

Generally speaking, this is the easiest plugin for migrating WordPress databases from local servers to remote servers and back again.

Features aside, Brad’s been kind enough to support a giveaway and a coupon code specifically for you guys.

Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills

May 3, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

About a month and a half ago, I was hanging out at WordCamp Atlanta and I was speaking on the topic of how to Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills.

To summarize, I covered the following topics:

The video has finally been published on WordCamp.tv and I’m sharing it as well as the accompanying slides below, as well.

How To Programmatically Populate a WordPress Template

May 2, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

The title of this post is somewhat misleading as I’m not actually sharing how to programmatically populate a WordPress template – instead, I’m walking through the process of populating a page that also has a page template applied to it.

Anyway, creating WordPress templates is easy business:

Create the template file in the theme directory
Give the template file the proper header comments
Fill out the template with the proper markup

Back in March, I shared a proof-of-concept plugin for including a template file in a plugin. If you browse through the comments, note that there’s a lot of discussion on how to do it, why one way is better than the others, and so on.

But as I’ve continued to work on a project in which I include templates in plugins, I’ve also been working on populating template-based pages with content from HTML files.

Here’s how I’ve been working to programmatically populate a WordPress template.

Hey, Wait – Don’t “Mark All As Read!”

May 1, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I talked mentioned I try to write every day. Personal stuff aside, it’s clear that I aim to write for this particular blog five days a week.

Though I’ve no plans to change that, I’ve know that writing daily can create a backlog for readers that makes it difficult to keep up with.

Ultimately, this results in readers opting not to discuss anything in the comments, or it results in subscribers calling bankruptcy on the RSS feed.

To that and (and perhaps somewhat ironically), I’m curious as to what you guys think as well as hearing your thoughts on some potential alternatives.

How To Enable SSL in MAMP

April 30, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In my developer toolbox post, I’ve covered that I prefer to use to MAMP for local development. For the most part, the default settings (or some variation thereof) work just fine; however, if you end up needing to do some work on a secure site, then you’ll need enable SSL in MAMP.

On production-level servers, you’ll need to have purchased an SSL certificate; however, MAMP makes it trivially easy to setup a certificate in your development environment.

WP DB Migrate Pro – A Discount and a Giveaway!

Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills

How To Programmatically Populate a WordPress Template

Hey, Wait – Don’t “Mark All As Read!”

How To Enable SSL in MAMP

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