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Using LighthouseApp For WordPress Issues

April 8, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I love about GitHub is how they’ve done a great job integrating source code, milestones, tickets, pull requests, and so on.

But if you’re working with WordPress, not all projects all on which you work will use GitHub.

Case in point: If you’re selling a theme on WordPress.com or if you’re working on a plugin that is hosted in the WordPress Plugin Repository, then you’re going to be using Subversion as your source control system. But this doesn’t mean that you have to sacrifice the work flow of milestones, tickets, and so on.

It just requires that you use a third-party solution. For example, for the past couple of months, I’ve been using LighthouseApp as my issue tracker of choice for Mayer.
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Two Versions of WordPress Themes (“Is It Worth It?”)

April 7, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to selling a theme for both WordPress.com and for self-hosted installations, one of the questions that I find myself asking is:

“Is it worth maintaining two repositories for the same theme?”

And I wonder this because when it comes to maintaining a codebase of a theme on WordPress.com and a version for the self-hosted version of WordPress, you can make the case that there’s no need to have a difference in the version of the themes.

But for anyone who has worked in both variants of WordPress, then you know there’s actually little bit in variation.

The Third Version of Live Theme For WordPress

April 3, 2014 / Tom

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About four years ago, I had the pleasure of working with a team to help deliver the first iteration of Live Theme for WordPress; however, as the team leaned out, changed directions, and paired down our product focus, we sold the product to someone else for continued development and maintenance.

To make a somewhat long (perhaps even boring) story short, I’m currently working on the third version of Live Theme for WordPress.

How to Set an SMTP Server in WordPress

April 2, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to sending emails in WordPress, the wp_mail function and its related filters such as wp_mail_content_type, wp_mail_from, and wp_mail_from_name are usually enough to accomplish the majority of what we need.

But there are times where it’s not enough. Specifically, there are times where we may need to define the details for using a custom SMTP server in WordPress.

Fortunately, WordPress provides a hook that makes this really easy to do.

How Not To Market WordPress Products (or “Why Customers Don’t Care”)

April 1, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’re any sort of a WordPress developer, then one of the things that you’ve no doubt noticed is how we market our work.

I’d say that it can be divided into two camps:

You have the developers who promote the features, design, and options that the theme or plugin offers.
You have the developers who promote all of the things that have gone into the theme as to what makes it significant.

When it comes to marketing WordPress themes or plugins (or any product, for that matter), then the first group has it absolutely correct.

The second group, on the other hand, can take a few cues from the first group – namely, stop trying to market your WordPress products based on the tools and technology that were used when working on the project.