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Debug WordPress with Kint PHP Debugger

June 10, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

When working to debug WordPress projects, I’m personally a fan of using Codebug (something I should probably write about a bit later), but it’s more of a general debugger than one specifically tailored for WordPress.

If you’re looking for the later, then there’s a solid plugin available from Tonya Mork (of Know The Code) that brings the features of Kint Debugger into a WordPress plugin.

For those who have never used a professional-grade debugger, this is a great way to get started with going beyond the standard print_r and var_dump statements that so many often use to locate problems.

Scheduled Post Shortcut for WordPress

June 9, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Scheduled Post Shortcut for WordPress is officially available in the WordPress Plugin Repository and is the second plugin that’s officially available via Pressware.

A few months ago, Easier Excerpts was a plugin that was released to help make it just a little bit easier to manage excerpts when composing blog posts.

Scheduled Post Shortcut is another plugin that attempts to stay in the same vein of simplicity while also making it easier to streamline the publishing process.

But what does that mean and what’s the story behind the plugin?

A Look at Freemius Checkout

June 8, 2016 / Tom

At the end of last year, I had the chance to meet Vova Feldman and see what he was working on with Freemius. It was a cool product, to be sure, and it’s been neat to see it take off over the last few months.

Just as I did with Freemius, I had a chance to see what else Vova has been working on and this time it’s something geared towards those who are selling products via their site.

Thus, there’s the aptly named Freemius Checkout. This product is geared specifically to those who are looking to sell plugins or themes.

It’s Not a Sad State of Web Development

June 7, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Like many of you, I use Pocket to file the articles I want to read or bookmark for future reference. Sometimes, I get around to reading them; other times, I never actually come back to them. The latter is a perpetual problem I have to get a handle on, but I digress.

Pocket

For the most part, I try to stick to a single topic of WordPress-related development on this blog. But there are times where I see things tangentially related as it comes to our industry (or even just our part of the industry).

Regarding Pocket, the whole reason I bring this up is that I was just spending time in my account preparing to declare bankruptcy in my set of articles. The goal was to clear out everything that was in there (isn’t that what bankruptcy is?), but I found some other articles that I still want to have available to read and to archive for reference.

But in deleting all of the articles that I found, I couldn’t help but notice a pattern of disappointing article titles and subject matter.

An Embarrassing First Release

June 6, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’ve talked before about my idea of shipping a “strong 1.0” when it comes to working on projects for yourself or other people but what if that version is an embarrassing first release?

There’s a quote that many of us are familiar with (and that I’ve referenced here before, too):

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, then you’ve launched too late.

It’s attributed to Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn.

I think it’s something that’s good to remember, but sometimes I wonder if we use it as a crutch when shipping something and as a rationalization to cut corners.

Tom McFarlin

Debug WordPress with Kint PHP Debugger

Scheduled Post Shortcut for WordPress

A Look at Freemius Checkout

It’s Not a Sad State of Web Development

An Embarrassing First Release