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Articles, tips, and resources for WordPress-based development.

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.

Using WP_Query To Get Posts From Last Week

March 27, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the most powerful aspects of the WordPress API is WP_Query as it allows us to retrieve a wide variety of content through a relatively simple interface.

That is, it allows us to retrieve complicated datasets ranging from custom post types, post status, date ranges, taxonomies, meta data, categories, and so on all with a relatively standard set of PHP constructs (mainly arrays) and with a really solid reference in the associated Codex article.

One of the nicest things about WP_Query, especially since WordPress 3.7, are the advanced date query parameters that we can use in order to retrieve information from a specific date range without having to do a lot of complicated date math (which, of course, is every programmer’s favorite aspect of development).

If you learn how to use that particular aspect of WP_Query and you’re familiar with PHP’s strtotime function, then you can retrieve posts from a range of dates easily.