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Talking About WordPress in High School

November 29, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

This past year, I’ve participated in a number of different meetups and speaking engagements all of which are oriented around blogging, WordPress, development, or something similar.

Generally speaking, I’ve enjoyed the events that I’ve attended. I always try to keep it really laid back (I make a lot of my presentations in Paper, even), and do what I can to make the events more of a discussion rather than a lecture.

For the most part, it goes well, but yesterday was a bit of a different audience: high school students.

WordPress Settings Sandbox: A Working Example of the Settings API

November 26, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

A few months ago, I completed a series of articles for Envato called The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API.

The purpose of the series was to walkthrough the WordPress Settings API taking a look at sections, settings, fields, and how they all fit together to properly build a WordPress project using menus, tabbed navigation, input elements, and data sanitization all of which interact properly with the WordPress database.

As part of the article, I also provided an open-source project called the WordPress Settings Sandbox that was to serve as a working demonstration of the WordPress Settings API. Continue reading

WordPress For Christmas with WP Snippets

November 23, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

It’s a day after Thanksgiving so all of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are going on – always fun to check out some of the neat deals online.

But since the end of Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season, there are also some neat projects that others have been working on. Sure, it’s common to see WordPress themes, plugins, and other seasonal assets be released, but here’s a neat project that the guys over at Square One have been working on specifically for WordPress for Christmas.

How To Get Post Content By Title

November 20, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

I've updated some of the content in this post for more clarity thanks to Stephen's comment

When it comes to retrieving content outside of The Loop or retrieving content based on certain criteria, it’s usually a matter of setting up a custom query using WP_Query.

But sometimes, setting up a full custom query, executing the loop, then resetting the post data isn’t required.

Case in point: I was recently working on a project in which the client wanted a modal dialog to appear with the title and the text from a specific page. Easy enough: use get_page_by_title.

But there’s one minor gotcha that I’ve seen more than a few times when using this method. Here’s how to get post content by title and avoid the pitfalls of doing so.

On Offering WordPress Support and Documentation

November 19, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Ah, the stock photo of Tech Support for the entire Internet!

One of the challenges of providing solutions built on top of WordPress is handling expectations of support and documentation. I’m not talking about running a support forum or writing elaborate API documentation.

Instead, I’m talking about providing instructions for how users can manage their site, application, or plugin once you’ve completed work on the project.

Over the past couple of years, there have been a few things that I’ve tried. I’m definitely curious to hear you guys’ thoughts on what you’ve done and what you’ve found to be successful, but first, here’s how I’ve historically handled WordPress support after a project handoff.