Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
Tipsy Social Icons is a free WordPress plugin that I’ve been maintaining for a few months. When I initially released it, the primary goal was to make it as easy as possible to integrate multiple social networking icons into your WordPress blog.
Over time, I’ve received a lot of great comments, emails, and feedback about the plugin all of which I appreciate. As such, I decided to create a premium version of the plugin of which I’m proud to announce: WP Social Icons.
Here’s my round up of good stuff over the past week:
One of my favorite things about working with WordPress is the community around the platform and how easy it is to extend the core application through themes and plugins. One of the challenges of new WordPress developers is getting started with publishing their plugins.
As such, I contributed an article that can be found on Envato on how to publish to the WordPress plugin repository.
Here’s some of the stuff that I found useful or interesting over this past week:
I was recently tasked with setting up a payment form that would span across two pages. The second form was dependent on information from the first so I needed to pass some data via the query string in order to update the second form.
After completing the first page of the form, the user would click an anchor and then be directed to the second form. Continue reading
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