There are two absolutely amazing things that the Internet has brought us:
- Animated GIFs
- Memes
And when you combine the two together, you get some seriously good stuff, right?
Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
There are two absolutely amazing things that the Internet has brought us:
And when you combine the two together, you get some seriously good stuff, right?
Just a little over a year ago, I released my WordPress Category Sticky Post plugin. The initial concept was simple:
Category Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific category archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for category archives.
And not a lot has changed since the first release.
Yes, I’ve made minor improvements here and there as evidenced by the changelog, but today I’m happy to officially release the second version of the plugin.
In three previous posts, I’ve mentioned that I’ve been slowly refocusing my own business to focus solely on working with WordPress. This particular focus includes:
In order to keep this momentum, albeit it very slow momentum, going, I’m looking to begin experimenting with self-hosting WordPress plugins. Specifically, I’m going to be using Auto Hosted.
And much like I did with support systems, I’m going to be evaluating it by actually, you know, using it.
But here’s the thing: I need your help.
Earlier this week, I released a relatively significant update to Comment Images that introduced the ability to globally enable or disable comments on posts across the entire site.
Seriously. What if I told you?
Since that release, I’ve received a couple of comments and several emails all of which were asking for a few minor improvements to the functionality so, late last night, I rolled out another relatively significant update to the plugin.
In a recent project, I’ve been working with large groups of input elements, and the course of action that’s taken depends on the type of element that raises the event.
Since so much of the project uses jQuery, I opted to write an extremely simple plugin that makes it easy to get an input’s type by calling a function on said element.
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