Category: Resources (Page 38 of 60)

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

My Preferred WordPress Hosting

November 16, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’m a big fan of Site5

Earlier this week, I had a couple of people shoot me an email asking who I preferred in a WordPress host. The truth is, when it comes to preferred WordPress hosting, both developers and designers have their vendors of choice.

I’m no different.

As you can tell from the screenshot above, I’m personally a big fan of Site5. This is not a sponsored post – simply a reason as to why I prefer these guys.

WordPress Command Line with WP-CLI

November 9, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

WordPress Command Line

Earlier this weet, @Scribu tweeted out the following link:

Lookie: http://t.co/sLta3kIe

— scribu (@scribu) November 5, 2012

Naturally, I followed and WP-CLI is definitely one of the cooler WordPress utilities I’ve seen in recent months. Basically, it introduces the WordPress command line.

Have You Built an Application with WordPress?

November 2, 2012 / Tom

Comments are closed. I'd like all feedback on your WordPress Application sent to my inbox.

Earlier this week, I shared my thoughts on building web applications with WordPress. Overall, I’ve really enjoyed the discussion that’s happened in the comments, but there’s been one question that’s continually cropped on in the comments and in my inbox:

Do you have examples of applications built on WordPress?

Noted developers Konstantin Kovshenin and Vladimir Prelovac chimed in with some of the WordPress applications that they’ve built, and I’m in the process of finishing up a few projects that I’m planning to cover here, but I know there’s more out there.

A Presentation on The WordPress Settings API

October 24, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

In the past, I’ve written extensively about the WordPress Settings API, how to introduce unit testing into projects using the WordPress Settings API, as well as my thoughts on frameworks in contrast to the Settings API.

Clearly, I’m an advocate for using this particular part of the API.

Using jQuery Confirm To Enhance Your User Interface

October 18, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to building themes, plugins, and other projects on top of WordPress, I think there is room for improvement when it comes to introducing basic user interface principles.

For example, I’ll be the first to admit that there are certain things I know – such as make users confirm before completing a destructive action – that I’ve not always done regularly.

I’m significantly better at putting these things in place now than I once was, but it’s little details like this that can really set your work apart from others and that can enhance the user experience. Not to mention, a lot of this stuff is backed by research in psychology.

Anyway, I’m all for sharing various tools and utilities that help make our lives as developers a bit easier especially when it comes to improving our user interfaces.

jQuery Confirm is one such plugin.