Tom McFarlin

Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development

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

Retiring Tipsy Social Icons For WordPress

February 21, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Tipsy Social Icons is now officially up for adoption in the WordPress plugin repository.

Back in 2011, I released the first version of Tipsy Social Icons – a WordPress plugin designed to make it easy to add all of your social networking icons to your WordPress-based blog.

As of last month, Tipsy Social Icons was officially three years old (pretty old in Internet years, right?), but development has slowed and my time has begun to be devoted to other projects – many of which I enjoy more – and additional plugin have been released that do a solid job of the same thing.

So today, I’m officially retiring Tipsy Social Icons.

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Mayer For WordPress – Now Available at WordPress.com

February 13, 2014 / / 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.

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Test Your Own Work: Officially On Mayer

January 16, 2014 /
One of my dogs with the Monday feels.

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.

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

January 6, 2014 /

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.

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Upcoming WordPress Theme

A Few Words About My Upcoming WordPress Theme

December 16, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Several weeks ago, I wrote an article about a theme that I’ve been working on that I’ll be using in place of Standard once development has actually been completed.

When it comes to working on project, I think it’s fair to say that sometimes we start off talking about certain things that we’re working on, get sidetracked on something new, and never end up coming back to it.

So in an effort to not only keep myself accountable, but also to continue to give a bit more information on the theme, I thought I’d provide additional updates as to its status, potential release date, how I’ll be rolling it out, and all that fun stuff.

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