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Using LighthouseApp For WordPress Issues

April 8, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I love about GitHub is how they’ve done a great job integrating source code, milestones, tickets, pull requests, and so on.

But if you’re working with WordPress, not all projects all on which you work will use GitHub.

Case in point: If you’re selling a theme on WordPress.com or if you’re working on a plugin that is hosted in the WordPress Plugin Repository, then you’re going to be using Subversion as your source control system. But this doesn’t mean that you have to sacrifice the work flow of milestones, tickets, and so on.

It just requires that you use a third-party solution. For example, for the past couple of months, I’ve been using LighthouseApp as my issue tracker of choice for Mayer.
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Two Versions of WordPress Themes (“Is It Worth It?”)

April 7, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to selling a theme for both WordPress.com and for self-hosted installations, one of the questions that I find myself asking is:

“Is it worth maintaining two repositories for the same theme?”

And I wonder this because when it comes to maintaining a codebase of a theme on WordPress.com and a version for the self-hosted version of WordPress, you can make the case that there’s no need to have a difference in the version of the themes.

But for anyone who has worked in both variants of WordPress, then you know there’s actually little bit in variation.

Managing Email with Flywheel and Pobox Email Forwarding

April 4, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Late last year, I migrated this site to Flywheel for managed WordPress hosting (which I talked a little bit about in this post). I’ve been incredibly happy with them for a number of reasons, each of which I cover at a later time; however, one of the features that they do not offer is email hosting.

Straight from their support channel:

At Flywheel we believe strongly in working with “best of breed” providers for everything we do, and we view ourselves to be a “best of breed WordPress host.” As such, we do not currently host email for our clients. We make a deliberate effort to focus on building a great WordPress hosting environment – and being the absolute best at it.

I love the mentality and the vision they’re after, but this does leave us needing to look for an alternative host.

They mention Google Apps, Zoho Mail, and Rackspace Email as alternatives, but the last thing that I wanted to do was setup yet-another-email-address.

I have a handful of email addresses all of which forward to a single Gmail box that allow me to respond from the address to which the email was sent, and I wanted to duplicate that for this particular domain.

So I tried one of the recommended solutions for a couple of months, and I couldn’t get it to jive with my workflow (for a number of different reasons, none of which I’m covering here).

This ultimately lead me to try out Pobox.

The Third Version of Live Theme For WordPress

April 3, 2014 / Tom

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About four years ago, I had the pleasure of working with a team to help deliver the first iteration of Live Theme for WordPress; however, as the team leaned out, changed directions, and paired down our product focus, we sold the product to someone else for continued development and maintenance.

To make a somewhat long (perhaps even boring) story short, I’m currently working on the third version of Live Theme for WordPress.

How to Set an SMTP Server in WordPress

April 2, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to sending emails in WordPress, the wp_mail function and its related filters such as wp_mail_content_type, wp_mail_from, and wp_mail_from_name are usually enough to accomplish the majority of what we need.

But there are times where it’s not enough. Specifically, there are times where we may need to define the details for using a custom SMTP server in WordPress.

Fortunately, WordPress provides a hook that makes this really easy to do.

Tom McFarlin

Using LighthouseApp For WordPress Issues

Two Versions of WordPress Themes (“Is It Worth It?”)

Managing Email with Flywheel and Pobox Email Forwarding

The Third Version of Live Theme For WordPress

How to Set an SMTP Server in WordPress