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Streamlining My Application Workflows

One of the things that I’ve found myself doing more and more is experimenting with various tools, workflows, and actually not using certain applications just to see how it impacts my day-to-day.

Generally speaking, I’m the kind of developer who takes his time picking out his tools, creating his workflow, and then sticking with them – it takes a lot for me to change the way that I get my stuff done.

Case in point: I’ve written an entire post about the applications and tools that I use and I’ve rarely deviate from this.

But for the last two months or so, I’ve found myself beginning to experiment more and more with trying out certain tools, removing certain tools, or changing up my workflow to see how it impacts things (for better or worse).

Obviously, this is a bit of a less technical or a less WordPress-centric post, but I figure that I’m not the only one that does this. As such, I thought I’d share my application workflows, some of the things I’ve been experimenting with, the results, and even see what you guys are doing that’s similar.

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Resolving The WordPress Multisite Redirect Loop

Though I do the majority of my work using single site WordPress installs, there are a number of sites and projects in which I’ve used WordPress multisite and there’s a problem that I’ve experienced specifically with using WordPress multisite, subdomains, and shared hosting environments.

Specifically, the problem is this:

  • Install WordPress and activate multisite
  • Configure the installation to use subdomains (versus subdirectories)
  • Attempt to login and get stuck in a redirect loop

If you have a single instance of WordPress multisite installed on the same server, there’s no issue, but if you go beyond that then you normally hit a problem: a redirect loop.

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WP Audio Player Now on GitHub

Earlier this week, I released WP Audio Player – a simple plugin that makes it easy to embed audio files into your WordPress posts.

The plugin was graciously evaluated by Pippin Williamson on his personal blog, and several people on Twitter asked that I place the plugin on GitHub so that they can contribute.

As much as I am a fan of the open source model, I’ve never actually placed any of my plugins on GitHub – I just stick with the Subversion repository and managed bug reports and feature requests as they come in.

But I thought placing WP Audio Player on GitHub would be a fun – it’s helped my Boilerplates, so I figured it’d bode well for this plugin, too.

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Looking For Blogging Interns For WP Daily

You guys know that I spend a significant portion of my time working with my team at 8BIT. We’re responsible for:

Earlier this week, we brought on our first developer intern for 2013. In addition to this particular role, we’re also looking to fill a blogging internship specifically for WP Daily.

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