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WordPress Hub Magazine

December 3, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I love to see is how people use different ways to contribute to the WordPress community. Outside of the usual theme, plugin, and application development efforts, there are also a number of blogs, sites, and podcasts (of which I should have more information on later this month, as well).

Thanks to Apple, the iTunes store, and the Newsstand application, authors are now able to publish their own magazines to the App Store.

One of the latest contributions I’ve found in the WordPress community is WordPress Hub Magazine.

WordPress Boilerplates: Widget and Plugin Officially at 1.0

November 30, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this month, I mentioned that I was looking to bring the WordPress Widget Boilerplate and the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate to 1.0. Throughout the month, I received a several pull requests most of which I merged into the projects.

I made a few changes that I’ll detail momentarily, but as of right now both WordPress Plugin Boilerplates are officially tagged as 1.0 and are available in their respective GitHub repositories.

Ending Development on Slide Note

November 30, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

In late 2010, I released a small jQuery plugin called Slide Note that made it easy to add sliding notifications to your website or web application. It included a variety of features such as the ability to control where it was displayed on the page, custom callbacks, and Ajax integration.

Eventually, I built a small WordPress plugin around but retired it shortly after the time required to maintain and support it exceeded the amount of time I had and, honestly, the amount of joy I was getting out of the plugin.

Anyway, I continued to maintain the jQuery plugin for sometime, but it’s time to retire that plugin, too.

An Improved JavaScript Alert with Alertify.js

November 29, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Finding JavaScript resources is almost too easy – aside from a quick Google search or looking through some of the stuff that’s available on GitHub, you can find practically almost anything you need.

But finding something that has a nice API, is lightweight, and doesn’t require any third-party library is becoming a bit rare. Continue reading

Talking About WordPress in High School

November 29, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

This past year, I’ve participated in a number of different meetups and speaking engagements all of which are oriented around blogging, WordPress, development, or something similar.

Generally speaking, I’ve enjoyed the events that I’ve attended. I always try to keep it really laid back (I make a lot of my presentations in Paper, even), and do what I can to make the events more of a discussion rather than a lecture.

For the most part, it goes well, but yesterday was a bit of a different audience: high school students.