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A summary of useful links, applications, and tools that I find around the Internet.

A Reference of WordPress Utility Functions

August 8, 2013 / Tom

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One of the nicest things about Twitter is being able to curate who you want to follow, listen to, and engage with as far as your interests are concerned. Truth be told, I wouldn’t know half the people that I saw at WordCamp or that I’ve done interviews or hangouts with were it not for first meeting them on Twitter.

On top of that, being able to answer other people’s questions, chat with others who are far more experienced or who offer alternative ideas, or who provide useful resources is an big plus.

No complaints on something like that, right?

Case in point: Paul Underwood is someone that’s often sharing a lot of great material – not long ago, he shared a great post on a number of useful WordPress utility functions.

Backing Up WordPress To Dropbox

July 19, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

There are a lot of services out there that provide stellar experiences as it relates to backing up your WordPress installation, but one plugin I’ve always been fond of is WordPress To Dropbox.

In short, the plugin is a free plugin with a couple of premium upsells one of which I have found to be completely worth the purchase.

Additionally, this is one way that you can keep costs low for backing up your site if you aren’t able to pay for some of the premium services or if you’re already paying a pretty penny for Dropbox.

Dev Docs: API Docs For HTML5, CSS3, DOM, JavaScript, and jQuery

July 12, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Years (or decades? – yikes!) it was relatively easy to get up to speed with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; however, the web is moving forward and it’s moving forward faster than ever.

The problem with this is that, as developers who stay heads-down busy on stuff, it can be tough to keep up to date with all of the new technologies that are available, what the new APIs are, or how to use them.

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across Dev Docs – I spent a few minutes looking at it – but as time has passed, I’ve spent more and more time using it for reference so much so that it has a permanent spot in my bookmarks bar (and that’s sacred space for me). Continue reading

Preprocessing Comments in WordPress

June 25, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

For a recent project, I needed to inspect the data incoming comments before any of the other filtering on the data took place. Sounds like a big snore-fest, right? In WordPress, preprocess comment filtering is something that’s actually really easy to do, but the thing is that the documentation was lacking.

Anyway, I did actually find a hook that allowed me to do what I needed to do, though there was no official Codex page explaining exactly how to use the filter.

As such, here’s a break down of exactly what I was trying to do, and then a link to the of the Codex article I drafted after I ended up getting familiar with the hook.

Two Months of Free Flywheel Hosting!

June 21, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Today, I’m happy to share that I’ve recently partnered with the guys at Flywheel to offer you guys two months of free Flywheel Hosting.

As much as I enjoy talking about development and related topics on this blog, one of the things that I dig the most is being able to do giveaways primarily because I appreciate the time you guys take to read and comment on various articles.

But enough of all this emo stuff – let’s talk about Flywheel, the service, and how you can take advantage of the giveaway.