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On WordPress Plugins and Extensions

December 1, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

From a consumer perspective, WordPress is as attractive as it is because of the number of plugins that exist for it. From a developer perspective, WordPress is as attractive as it is because of how easy it is to extend the core application through the APIs.

They’re a hot topic, too – anyone (including me and probably you, as well) who’s worked with WordPress in any capacity has their opinions on some plugins, on certain plugins, on all plugins, on the plugin directory, and so on.

But one thing that we don’t talk about very much – at least right now – is the idea of extensions. But why? They’re something that are becoming more common with various plugins and with various themes.

My Suite of Apps: Better Rename 9

November 28, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

I received my first digital camera in the early 2000’s as a birthday present (though I had used my parents’ Sony Mavica and a few floppy disks for years prior) and I’ve done what I can to save every picture and video taken with that camera and every digital camera I’ve had – including phones – ever since.

I’m not a photographer by any means – not even a hobbyist – but I, like anyone else, takes pictures during any kind of event that’s going on. And since becoming a dad, I’m taking pictures nearly every day since, you know, kids do something new all the time ;).

Anyway, this means that I have a little over 10 years worth of pictures and videos archived. I’m compulsive about their organization (and I’m also a little paranoid about losing them which has lead to a multisite backup strategy, but that’s for another post).

That is, I organize all of the photos by year, month, day, hour, minute, and second – or I try to do so up to whatever the greatest level of detail is. Since phones and digital cameras keep so much information in their EXIF data, this is relatively easy to do.

But cameras haven’t always kept so much information in their EXIF data.

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 27, 2014 / Tom

Happy Thanksgiving

We’re celebrating Thanksgiving today in the United States, so I’m taking a day off of the typical routine.

For those who are also celebrating the holiday, I hope you have a great day hanging out with friends and family and enjoying the food, the naps (well, if you can fit it in), and the general time off.

For those who aren’t celebrating Thanksgiving, I still hope your day is just as awesome (perhaps you can find the time to hang out with some friends or family or get some good food, as well :).

I’ll be resuming my usual posts tomorrow morning. Until then, enjoy the day!

Getting Started with WordPress Taxonomies

November 26, 2014 / Tom

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For those who are just getting started in WordPress development, one of the more challenging aspects of working with some of the extended APIs is that of WordPress taxonomies.

Perhaps it’s because the term is one that’s not often used, perhaps it’s because it’s something that’s a little difficult to understand; however, whatever the case, I’m aiming to try to simplify the topic in my latest series on Tuts+.

A Quick Tip To Extract Data with RegEx

November 25, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

In a recent project, one of the features that I was working on required that the application make periodic calls to a third-party API in order to retrieve a piece of information to be used later throughout the application.

This piece of data changes over time (though the intervals are irregular) and the end point to which the application connects doesn’t return a standard XML, JSON, or the information in any other standard protocol. Instead, it returns a string of mixed HTML and JavaScript.

The piece of key information is prefixed stored in a JavaScript so it’s easy to get the proverbial bearings from the API’s response, but in terms of grabbing the unique data, it requires some work to extract the data with a regular expression.

Tom McFarlin

On WordPress Plugins and Extensions

My Suite of Apps: Better Rename 9

Happy Thanksgiving!

Getting Started with WordPress Taxonomies

A Quick Tip To Extract Data with RegEx