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On Open Source Entitlements: Contributors

December 4, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

This post is part one of two on a series of open source entitlement.

One of the challenges that comes with working with and using open source is the danger for it breed a sense of entitlement.

For the most part, I don’t think those get who involved in open source software aim to become entitled – after all, building open source projects is a labor of love, right?

We spend our time that could be spent doing other things volunteering to work on something that we’re passionate about, and that we believe will help to make the world (or at least a few people’s lives) a bit better.

But the underbelly of this is that people who find themselves involved in open source either as contributors or as users end up acting entitled from time-to-time.

Should There Be Consistency in Product Landing Page Design?

December 3, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’d venture to say that most anyone you ask will say that a product’s landing page design plays one of the most important roles in generating conversions. After all, why else would we have tools and products dedicated solely to studying visitor analytics, data tracking, a/b testing, and so on?

Common sense, right?

Granted, there are certain things that are known to work when building landing pages. That is to say that there are principles that are tried, true, and proven as it relates to creating landing pages for working to sell products to users.

The thing is, all of these principles can be dressed up differently depending on the color scheme, company branding, culture, verbiage, and so on.

With that said – and I’m sure there’s an answer for those of you who are designers, marketers, and/or usability experts who are reading along – how much, if at all, does the consistency of landing page design matter for products that belong to a single brand?

Add a Custom Wrapper To The WordPress More Tag

December 2, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Most of the popular CSS frameworks that are available today offer some sort of grid system for us to use such that we can arrange our content in rows and columns. This is advantageous for a number of reasons, the least of which is not for aiding responsive design.

When it comes to WordPress, one of the most common elements that authors will use is the `more` tag.

Just as there are times where we may want to indicate that a class has (or doesn’t have) a `more` tag, we may also want to wrap the tag in a row with columns on either side of the tag.

This gives us flexibility in styling the tag not only by helping to place the text by using columns and/or offsets, but also by taking advantage of a grid in the context of responsive design.

The WordPress Weekly Podcast

November 29, 2013 / Tom

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Last week, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Jeff Chandler and Sarah Gooding of WP Tavern on the WordPress Weekly Podcast.

We talked about WordPress – naturally – various headlines in the WordPress community, remote working, and some other fun topics.

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 28, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Today is an official holiday in the United States, so I’m taking the day off of the usual routine.

For those of you who are in the United States and are celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope you guys have an awesome day hanging out with your family, friends, eating, sleeping, and generally enjoying the day off.

Happy Thanksgiving, guys!

Tom McFarlin

On Open Source Entitlements: Contributors

Should There Be Consistency in Product Landing Page Design?

Add a Custom Wrapper To The WordPress More Tag

The WordPress Weekly Podcast

Happy Thanksgiving!