Category: Projects (Page 13 of 32)

Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.

The State of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

February 28, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the projects that I love working on the most is the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

I dig it because it’s been a resource that has helped other people, and there are a number of other contributors that are constantly working to make it even better.

Earlier this year, I had plans to begin releasing more frequent updates, but – as with the nature of employment and side projects that are done for free – the updates didn’t happen as fast as I would like.

Additionally, it was becoming clear to me that the Boilerplate was headed in a direction that was going to be more intimidating for beginners, harder to grasp for those migrating their plugins to that format, and that it was not using some of the best principles in place.

So after talking with a number of notable developers, I’ve opted to delay the release of `2.7.0` until we have something significantly better than what’s in place.

In fact, it’s going to be a near total rewrite.

Mayer For WordPress – Now Available at WordPress.com

February 13, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’m proud to announce that, as of today, Mayer is officially for sale on WordPress.com.

This particular release has been a long time coming, so much so that I’ve discussed it a number of times on the blog already:

Of course, after several rounds of beta, code reviews, feature changes, and so on, things are bound to change over the course of development.

But today, Mayer is officially at `1.0` and is ready for purchase.

Test Your Own Work: Officially On Mayer

January 16, 2014 / Tom

dog fooding can sometimes give you the monday feels (as one of my dog demonstrates)

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I firmly believe that developers should be dog fooding their own work.

This isn’t to say that I don’t believe that assembling a team of beta testers is unimportant – on the contrary – but if you’re building something, and the only people who have experience using said product are people other than you, then I think that’s a problem.

So as of today, I’m proud (if not a little bit embarrassed) to be officially test-driving Mayer – my next WordPress theme that I’ve been discussing for sometime.

I’m Officially Looking For Beta Testers For ‘Mayer’

January 6, 2014 / Tom

As of today, I’m excited to announce that I am officially looking for a handful of beta testers for Mayer.

In previous blog posts, I’ve shared a bit about the theme:

Mayer is for bloggers who write frequently and/or write long form content, or want to do either of the above.
It offers no options – everything is managed via the Theme Customizer.
This is the theme I will be using in place of Standard
Fully supports WordPress 3.8
…and more

But, as they say, I’m too close to the product, and so I need to get it into the hands of others who are willing to install it, toy around with it, try to break it, and report bugs, and other mistakes, and who are willing to do so for a number of rounds of testing.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in doing, then please read on as I’ve got all the details below.

The State of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

Retiring Tipsy Social Icons For WordPress

Mayer For WordPress – Now Available at WordPress.com

Test Your Own Work: Officially On Mayer

I’m Officially Looking For Beta Testers For ‘Mayer’