Category: Projects (Page 24 of 32)

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

Ending Development on Slide Note

November 30, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

In late 2010, I released a small jQuery plugin called Slide Note that made it easy to add sliding notifications to your website or web application. It included a variety of features such as the ability to control where it was displayed on the page, custom callbacks, and Ajax integration.

Eventually, I built a small WordPress plugin around but retired it shortly after the time required to maintain and support it exceeded the amount of time I had and, honestly, the amount of joy I was getting out of the plugin.

Anyway, I continued to maintain the jQuery plugin for sometime, but it’s time to retire that plugin, too.

WordPress Settings Sandbox: A Working Example of the Settings API

November 26, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

A few months ago, I completed a series of articles for Envato called The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API.

The purpose of the series was to walkthrough the WordPress Settings API taking a look at sections, settings, fields, and how they all fit together to properly build a WordPress project using menus, tabbed navigation, input elements, and data sanitization all of which interact properly with the WordPress database.

As part of the article, I also provided an open-source project called the WordPress Settings Sandbox that was to serve as a working demonstration of the WordPress Settings API. Continue reading

Get Standard – Black Friday Thru Cyber Monday Sale!

November 24, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Standard 3.2 is just around the corner!

For those of you who don’t know, I spend half my time working with my team at 8BIT working hard on both analog and digital products for bloggers.

Though I’ve discussed it in detail before, simply put: Standard is the core passion of the team and we’re committed to making it best theme for bloggers that we possibly can.

My team and 8BIT and I are currently running a Standard Theme discount from Black Friday thru Cyber Monday and here are the details:

WordPress Widget Boilerplate: Aiming For 1.0

November 5, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

In the same way that I’ve been working on the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, I’ve never really done a good job of handling versioning. I’ve simply closed tickets as they’ve been opened and I’ve resolved issues as I – or others – have encountered them.

Next month, I’m hoping to officially tag it and the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate as version 1.0, but I’m hoping to get a few more eyes on the code prior to doing so.

This weekend, I spent some time closing tickets, refactoring some code, and improving a few aspects of both of the boilerplates to improve its overall standard.

Here’s a run down of everything that’s been updated since the I initially launched the WordPress Widget Boilerplate:

WordPress Plugin Boilerplate: Aiming For 1.0

November 5, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

Since I’ve been working on the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, I’ve never really done a good job of handling versioning for it. Instead, I’ve closed tickets as they’ve shown up and I’ve resolved issues as I – or others – have encountered them.

Next month, I’m hoping to officially tag it and the WordPress Widget Boilerplate as version 1.0, but I’m hoping to get a few more eyes on the code prior to doing so.

This weekend, I spent some time closing tickets, refactoring some code, and improving a few aspects of the code to improve its overall standard.

Here’s a run down of everything that’s been updated since the I initially launched the boilerplate: