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.

Tipsy Social Icons Plugin For WordPress

August 2, 2012 /

This version is a major update but if you're interested in skipping most of the information, jump down to what's new in this version.

Tipsy Social Icons In January 2011, Atlanta was hit with a major snow storm that had many of us hanging out inside of our homes for days at a time. To say that I had cabin fever would be an understatement.

During that time, I wrote a really simple social icons plugin for WordPress. Because I used Jason Frame’s excellent jQuery plugin called Tipsy, I aptly named the plugin Tipsy Social Icons.

Since it was first released, I’ve done much more WordPress development and this plugin wasn’t up to par with my usual standards, so I’m updating it and am officially releasing Tipsy Social Icons 3.0.

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Standard Theme 3.0 For WordPress

June 30, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Since being self-employed, I’ve divided my time between building applications for others and as working as a developer for 8BIT. Over the past couple of years, we’ve released a handful of WordPress Themes, but roughly a year ago began to narrowly focus our efforts on our flagship product: Standard.

Yesterday, the team launched Standard 3.0 For WordPress – a product that has been approximately nine months in development. As far as my professional career is concerned, I’m extraordinarily proud of what we’ve accomplished.

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Release Week for Standard For WordPress.org

June 26, 2012 / / 0 Comments

This week, my startup – 8BIT – will be releasing the third version of our flagship product, Standard For WordPress.org.

In fact, I’ve been running this site on the previews that we’ve been releasing in order to be actively kicking the tires throughout development (John has shared his thoughts on dogfooding, too).

Release Week of Standard For WordPress.org

Over the course of the time that we’ve been building Standard For WordPress.org, the team has undergone a number of internal changes to help us better manage our project, codebase, deadlines, testing procedures, etc all of which I’ll likely discuss in a future post.

Additionally, we’ve partnered with Automattic as well as a few other notable guys in the WordPress community to make sure this release is as solid as possible. Continue reading

Improved Author Administration For WordPress

April 23, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Author Admin homepage

One of the advantages that comes with building various products for WordPress is getting to meet a lot of different people working on interesting things. Some are developers, some are bloggers, some are contributors, some are editors – there’s a wide variety of people using the platform in many different ways.

If you’re acting as an editor, you have a number of responsibilities: you have to curate content, create, edit, and schedule posts, work with a team of authors, and, in some cases, make sure that your server and associated environment is up-to-date.

If you’re an editor, WordPress leaves a bit to be desired when working with a team of authors. Author Admin is a premium plugin that attempts to mitigate that problem by adding improved author administration for WordPress.

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