Category: Projects (Page 18 of 32)

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

Required – A Free WordPress Theme By 8BIT

July 25, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

The last time that 8BIT released a theme, it was in June of 2012. We had just dropped Standard 3 and although we’ve done iterations on the product almost every quarter, we’ve generally stayed hyper-focused on that single product in order to make it the absolute best that it can be.

As of of right now, 3.4 is in development and the theme is in a really good place.

But one of the things that we, as a team, wanted to do for the WordPress space was to give something back, and do so with the highest level of quality we could given a tight set of constraints.

Yesterday, we officially launched Required.

Markdown Code For WordPress 0.4.0

July 24, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In the last release for Markdown Code For WordPress, I added support for `strong` and `em` tags by using asterisks, but as with all software, there are always edge cases.

And there lies the beauty of keeping source code openly available for others to download, use, and improve.

So in the latest release, there have been some edge cases that have been fixed especially thanks to GeertDD.

Markdown Code For WordPress 0.3.0

July 16, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When I first started working on Markdown Code For WordPress, the whole point of the plugin was to create an extremely simple solution for making it easy for me to replace `lines of code` without needing to hop into the visual editor, or to install a larger plugin with full markdown support.

Over the past couple of months, the plugin has received a little bit of refactoring, some good feedback of which I hope to implement (but it’s very low priority side project so, y’know..), and a pull request to simplify the code even more.

Love it.

However, I’ve gotten a bit used to the plugin (and markdown), so I’ve ended up adding support for two new markdown features into the plugin.

A Status Update on WP Audio Player

July 15, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

A few months ago, I released WP Audio Player and it has it has since received a decent number of downloads, feature requests, and other feedback.

In fact, it’s rare that a week goes by where someone doesn’t shoot me an email asking about how to do something with the plugin, how to introduce their own features, and so on.

To that end, I wanted to provide a short update to those of you who are fans of the plugin and who are looking for the next version, but who are wondering about its status. Continue reading

Adding PDFs To WordPress Comments with PDF Comments

July 9, 2013 / Tom

This plugin is no longer maintained or available and comments on the post have been closed.

When I first got into WordPress development several years ago, I began experimenting with selling two premium plugins for approximately one year. During that time I learned a lot about what makes or breaks a successful plugin (and what kind of things can seriously drain you from a support perspective).

In fact, I eventually killed both of those projects off because I no longer had the desire to work on them, maintaining the support required more time than I currently had, and I had not really selected the best business model for selling them.

Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time working on client projects, free projects, writing, speaking, and working to build other WordPress-based products.

For those who have been following this blog for some time, you know that I’ve been doing research on WordPress support systems, I’ve been working to rebrand my LLC, and I have been refocusing all of my efforts specifically on WordPress (and dropping support for other platforms, frameworks, etc.).

Today, I’m happy to announce that I’ve recently partnered with the guys at FooPlugins to release my first premium plugin in the past couple of years which makes adding PDFs to WordPress comments a breeze.