Category: Projects (Page 27 of 35)

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

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.

Redactor Image Uploads For WordPress

October 5, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a web application that’s being built on top of WordPress.

One of the requirements dictated the users should be able to have rich editing from the front end after being logged in. This includes being able to do the usual bold, italic, strikes, and link, as well as images and videos.

Redactor.js is a fantastic jQuery plugin that brings front-end editing to any website or web application, but implementing Redactor JS image upload and WordPress proved to be a bit of a challenge specifically because I wanted to keep all images organized in the standard wp-content/uploads directory.

So, while working on said project, I also generalized the script a bit and created Redactor Image Upload For WordPress.

It’s a short, simple title, right? Right-ish.

Introducing #notes For Capturing Blogging Notes

October 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Occasionally, I share some of the work that my team at 8BIT has been working on. Up until recently, we were focused heavily on Standard for both self-hosted blogs and for WordPress.com.

The thing is, we’re not trying to be another theme shop. In fact, our ultimate goal is to try to make the best products possible for people who consider themselves to be or who are aspiring to be digital publishers.

This may include developers and designers, but more often than not, this includes people who care about sharing their thoughts, opinions, views, and general words about any given topic.

And we want to empower them.

The challenge, though, is that we don’t always have our digital devices with us, but for anyone who has blogged for a significant amount of time realizes that inspiration or ideas can hit at any time.

To that end, we saw a need to help others take blogging notes. Friday, we officially announced, released, and began shipping #notes. Continue reading