Tom McFarlin

Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development

Author: Tom (Page 386 of 427)

WordPress User Interface Design

August 6, 2012 / / 0 Comments

For years, I’ve been using PayPal and although I don’t hate the service as much as many (in fact, I have very few complaints), I really dig Stripe for its simplicity, design, and ease of integration.

On top of that, I’ve used it in a variety of client projects but I’ve never actually done anything with it myself.

But this past weekend, I finally had the opportunity to integrate Stripe into a page on my site, and I used the WP-Stripe plugin by Noel Tock.

This morning, I tweeted the following:

This tweet sparked an excellent conversation in WordPress user interface design.

Continue reading

Quick Tip: Installing Git On Mac OS X

August 4, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Install Git on Mac

My favorite Git client for OS X is GitBox – it’s incredibly simple and makes working with git-based repositories really easy.

Still, there are times where I prefer the command line for a couple of things and the various GUI clients come up short. If you’ve not installed the OS X Developer Tools, like Xcode, on your machine, then you’re likely unable to use a command line version of the application that is bundled with your client of choice.

Here’s how to do it:

Continue reading

Using CodeKit For WordPress Plugin Development

August 3, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Earlier this week, I shared my approach to and the tools used for building a WordPress Plugin. In the post, I briefly touched on CodeKit, but I didn’t really talk about why I use it nor did I share how I configure it for my WordPress-based projects.

Using CodeKit For WordPress Plugin Development

CodeKit is a platform-agnostic application – it’s meant for anyone who is doing web development – and it has been one of the single best tools that I’ve added to my WordPress toolbox in the past year.

The thing is, there’s a variety of ways to tailor CodeKit for your needs. It has support for LESS, Sass, a couple of JavaScript linting utilities, dependency management, minification, and so on.

Though there’s no single “right way” to configure it, here’s how I’ve been using CodeKit for WordPress plugin development.

Continue reading

Tipsy Social Icons Plugin For WordPress

August 2, 2012 /

This version is a major update but if you're interested in skipping most of the information, jump down to what's new in this version.

Tipsy Social Icons In January 2011, Atlanta was hit with a major snow storm that had many of us hanging out inside of our homes for days at a time. To say that I had cabin fever would be an understatement.

During that time, I wrote a really simple social icons plugin for WordPress. Because I used Jason Frame’s excellent jQuery plugin called Tipsy, I aptly named the plugin Tipsy Social Icons.

Since it was first released, I’ve done much more WordPress development and this plugin wasn’t up to par with my usual standards, so I’m updating it and am officially releasing Tipsy Social Icons 3.0.

Continue reading

Organize Your WordPress Installation For Subversion-Based Development

August 1, 2012 / / 0 Comments

If you’ve done any development on themes, plugins, or the core application itself, then you know that the team uses Subversion for WordPress development. This means that when you checkout the project, you’re either pulling down at least three directories, or you’re pulling down the trunk.

The challenge is figuring out a way to organize your local development environment so that it resembles the staging and production environment rather than what the repository looks like.

But this can be tough if you’re used to working with the trunk, with copying files, or with whatever crazy ways you’ve come up with managing version controlled files.

Here’s the most effective way that I’ve found to organize my installation when using Subversion for WordPress development:

Continue reading

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2025 Tom McFarlin

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑