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A listing and summary of all posts that I’ve contributed to the Envato WPTuts+ blog.

Incorporating The jQuery Date Picker in WordPress

How To Include The jQuery Datepicker in WordPress

February 28, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In the first quarter of this year, I’ve been working on two client projects both of which have called specifically for incorporating advanced date management into various aspects of WordPress.

Because of various formats, user error, and so on can make working with dates a bit difficult, I’ve always been partial to working with date pickers to make date selection and management a bit easier.

And since WordPress includes both jQuery and jQuery UI, I tend to use the features that are included rather than introducing yet-another-library.

In my latest series on WPTuts+, I walk through the process of how to incorporating the jQuery datepicker in WordPress.

Strategies For For Supporting WordPress Plugins

Strategies For Supporting WordPress Plugins

February 18, 2013 / Tom

When it comes to writing, releasing, and maintaining WordPress plugins is figuring out how to actually support your work once it’s released.

After all, the majority of work on software is maintaining the codebase and responding from all of the feedback given by users or customers.

In my latest article on Envato, I talk specifically about strategies for supporting WordPress Plugins – I lay out some of the problems that currently exist, and also invite readers to share their experience, concerns, and suggestions with what’s available today.

Why (And How!) To Use A WordPress Boilerplate

January 30, 2013 / Tom

For those of who you have been reading this blog for a while (thanks, by the way), you know that I work to maintain the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate and the WordPress Widget Boilerplate along with a growing community of developers.

Despite the fact that I’ve promoted them here on the blog, called for others to get involved, and so on, I’ve never actually given a proper tutorial on how to use them to get started in your projects.

So in my lastest series on Envato, I’m making a case for why the matter and how to use them.

A Screencast on Advanced WordPress Plugin Development

January 10, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to building things for WordPress, one of the things that I enjoy most is building plugins.

Sure, themes are fun and I dig the functionality that they bring, but because themes often require a significant time in design – a weakness of mine – and plugins are more oriented to adding extesibility and functionality – more or less a strength of mine – I’m more partial to it.

I spend a lot of time talking about how to do certain things with WordPress, viewing it as an application framework, and trying to provide scaffolding for projects – be it plugins or functions – but one thing that I’ve never done is actually provide a solid tutorial on my process for building plugins.

In my first premium screencast for Envato, I do exactly that.

Tips For Beginning WordPress Development

January 8, 2013 / Tom

The web is filled with a variety of questions and answers, tutorials, and demonstrations of how to accomplish certain tasks with WordPress. Sometimes, the code is really good; other times, the code is not so good.

This can be dangerous primarily because some developer-types are more concerned with copying and pasting code just to get something working rather than truly understanding and learning the application.

In my latest post on Envato, Practical Tips For Aspiring WordPress Developers, I try to provide some advice for those who are serious about beginning WordPress development.