Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
Single Post Message For WordPress is a plugin for easily adding short messages in the top of your posts and displaying them in both the browser and in RSS feeds.
I started working on this plugin a couple of weeks ago and have been dogfooding it throughout development – here’s an example of the plugin in action.
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.
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).
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
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.
Collapsible Menus is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create a collapsible menu using nested, unordered lists.
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