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How To Level Up Your WordPress Development Skills

March 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

This past weekend, I attended WordCamp Atlanta 2013 and had an great time listening to some awesome speakers, finally meeting some Twitter friends face-to-face, and hanging out with a number of different people at the conference at the after party. All-in-all, it was a great weekend.

I gave my talk, Level Up Your WordPress Development Skills, on Saturday morning at 9am. Though the talk was filmed, I’m not sure when it will be online, so I’ve shared both my slides and the notes from my talk below.

Come Say “Hey” at WordCamp Atlanta 2013!

March 15, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the next two days, my team and I are going to be hanging out with a lot of awesome people at WordCamp Atlanta.

You can find out all of the information about the conference on the official website, but the short of it is that a ton of people are coming into town to chat about all things WordPress.

An Introduction To Cross Site Scripting in WordPress

March 15, 2013 / Tom

When it comes to cross site scripting in WordPress, I think that there’s a lot of education that’s to be had.

I’m by no means an expert in this field, but I think that there’s either a lack of awareness or we take for granted what WordPress does for us.

Generally speaking, WordPress does an excellent job of providing sanitization and validation functions (assuming that we use them correctly), but that doesn’t mean there aren’t potential exploits.

In my latest series on Envato, I give a two part introduction to cross-site scripting in WordPress and practical tips for how we can test our themes and our plugins.

Open Source Ethics: Profiting From Contributions

March 14, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to turning a profit on open-source software, I’d like to think that the majority of developers follow the same set of ethics. I’m my experience, it’s true – though, as with anything, there are outliers.

As I continue to work to introduce a premium level of support for my WordPress-related work, one of the things that I’ve found myself wrestling with is turning a profit on work to which others have contributed.

But are open source ethics that complicated?

Finding The Right WordPress Support System

March 13, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

The past couple of weeks, I’ve been discussing the challenge of supporting free WordPress plugins. Though I’ve done this in the past, I’ve retired those projects, but am looking to get back into doing so all the while documenting the process here.

But first, for those who haven’t been reading the articles up to this point, I wanted to reference the previous posts just to let you know where I stand with regard to all of this:

The point is that I’m slowly working my way back into building a small business around building WordPress plugins, supporting them, offering documentation, manuals, and so on, but I want to make sure that I’m doing it right.

To that end, I’m enjoying the discussion with you guys via the comments as well as the challenge of finding the best tools possible not only for me but for potential customers, as well and this is what raises my next issue: Finding the right WordPress support system. Continue reading