Category: Projects (Page 25 of 33)

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

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:

Comment Tweets For WordPress

November 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Comment Tweets For WordPress

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been recording a premium screencast for Envato in which I share how to build a WordPress plugin from the ground up using professional development techniques such as object-oriented programming, proper use of Actions and Filters, LESS, CodeKit, and more.

While working on the screencast, one of the things that I wanted to do was to showcase exactly what it’s like to build something from the ground up, release it, and then experience the various comments, support issues, and so on. After all, that is the norm for releasing projects to the public.

The result of all of this is Comment Tweets For WordPress.