Category: Notes (Page 40 of 49)

Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.

An Update on Another WordPress Podcast

November 2, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I asked if anyone thought that there was room for yet another WordPress Podcast. To be honest, the response was a bit overwhelming.

How awesome, right?

In addition to all of the comments, I also received numerous emails and even a few tweets about this – anything ranging from people who are looking to help out to those who are looking to volunteer to be on the podcast.

Around the same time, my team at 8BIT have been planning about rebooting our own podcast as we’re preparing to launch a new property in the WordPress space, too.

As I move forward with this, I thought it’d be fun to give updates as to where I stand with the state of the podcast, the plans for it, and what you can look forward to once it’s rolling.

Another WordPress Podcast?

October 19, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of my favorite things to do when going on a run or a long drive is to queue up a few podcasts and listen to them. Generally speaking, most of the podcasts that I listen to are directly related to things I’m interested in and/or interested in learning more about.

Then again, isn’t that what everyone listens to?

With that said, I can honestly say that I’m not familiar with a significant number of high quality WordPress podcasts. In fact, the one’s I’m most aware of are published by WPCandy, and Jeff at WPTavern (on which I had to pleasure speaking last year).

I have an idea for another type of WordPress podcast, but I’m wondering if there’s room for it, or if the reason there are so few is because there’s so little interest.

What’s The Best Way To Manage WordPress Assets?

September 21, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to developing web sites and web applications, there are two things that developers always consider as it relates to the project’s assets and its performance:

The number of HTTP requests a page requires
Loading all of the assets versus only what we need for a page (also known as YAGNI or You ain’t gonna need it.)

This is an obvious problem as we have tools like Head.js and Sprockets for managing this issue, and then we have customizers for larger utilities like Bootstrap that allow us to customize our builds.

Managing WordPress assets is becoming incredibly more relevant especially as frameworks, themes, and plugins become more powerful, and as people begin to build full applications on top of WordPress.

WordPress Designer, Developer, or Blogger? Advertise!

September 11, 2012 / Tom

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One of the fun things about maintaining a blog and getting plugged into a community is that it affords opportunities both for yourself and others. In those opportunities, you also have the chance to experiment with a variety of options when it comes to monetizing your property.

For a couple of months now, I’ve been running advertisements on posts that are older than two weeks and that sit between the post content and the comment content. For example.

It’s proven relatively successful by my own internal metrics, so I wanted to continue the experiment. Today, I’m opening up more advertisements on the sidebar.

The short of it:

Sidebar 300×250: $20 / month for 30 days (which is currently filled)
2x Sidebar 125×125: $15 / month for 30 days

How I Built The Category Sticky Post and Tag Sticky Post WordPress Plugins

August 28, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Yesterday, I released two plugins for WordPress – Category Sticky Post and Tag Sticky Post – both of which serve the same purpose:

Allows authors to mark a post to be placed at the top of a specified archive. It’s sticky posts specifically for an archive.

The only difference is that one is specifically intended for category archives, the other with tag archives. And thus explains the clever names of each of the plugins.

As with my other plugins, I wanted to share my notes on what into building Category Sticky Post and Tag Sticky Post.