
A couple of weeks ago, I shared a few thoughts on running successful WordPress projects on Theme.fm. Today, I contributed a second post in which I share several strategies for successful WordPress upgrades.
Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development

A couple of weeks ago, I shared a few thoughts on running successful WordPress projects on Theme.fm. Today, I contributed a second post in which I share several strategies for successful WordPress upgrades.
Some of my favorite stuff from around the web this week:
Earlier this week, my wife and I found out that we’re having a girl in January and we also had some home remodeling done. Busy (so only a few weeks this week)! Still, there’s some of the stuff I enjoyed: Continue reading
I spend the majority of my time working in Chrome. Whenever I’m working with a lot of JavaScript, I tend to print information to the console for review.
The thing is, typing alert() is much faster than typing console.log() but alert() is exceptionally more annoying. For those of you that want to save a few keystrokes, copy this simple script into a file and include it before any other JavaScript on your site:

This morning, I had the pleasure of contributing a guest post at Theme.fm in which I discuss three components for successful WordPress projects. Continue reading
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