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

Where Do I Start With WordPress? (An Upcoming eBook)

March 3, 2017 / Tom

A little over a year ago, I launched my first membership site which I called The First Version.

The idea behind the name wasn’t anything clever – it was the first time I’d tried something like this, it was the first version of the site, so the name was something that was quick and easy to register and set up.

Then, for the second iteration of the site, I called it Start Here under the idea of answering the question “where do I start with WordPress?”

The original “Start Here” landing page.

Anyone who has jumped into WordPress and begun to develop (or begun to try to develop) themes, plugins, applications, or any other type of solution for others knows that it can be difficult to know where to start.

Rather than offering another closed membership site, I’m going to be publishing an eBook called Start Here which still aims to answer “where do I start with WordPress” but does so in an easier and cheaper format.

Find The Difference in Dates Using PHP (and WordPress)

March 2, 2017 / Tom / 0 Comments

Working with dates in PHP is one of those things that you either have a good handle on, you’re working on understanding, or you’re stuck in the rabbit hole of the documentation that’s in the manual.

Difference in Dates Using PHP: The PHP Manual

If you’re working with WordPress, though, the chance that you’re going to need to work with dates is quite high. Nearly everything that we publish has at least one date associated with it.

This includes post, pages, custom post types, revisions, drafts, and so on.

Furthermore, there’s a chance that custom work that you need to develop with require that you find the difference in two dates using PHP. And though there are multiple ways of doing this, there’s a process that I’ve been following for something.

Insights for WordPress Themes by Freemius

March 1, 2017 / Tom

Some time ago, I wrote about Freemius when the product was first introduced into the WordPress economy. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of talking with Vova Feldman – the CEO of Freemius – and even crossing paths with him at WordCamp US.

Vova Feldman, Carl Alexander, and Myself at WordCamp US

Since my initial post, Freemius has released a couple of products and just released a new product (for which WP Tavern has some coverage about it already).

Given my respect for them, and what they are doing in the WordPress economy for both plugin authors and theme developers, I wanted to share some in-depth information regarding their latest work project.

Insights for WordPress Themes

Thanks to some information and exchange with Vova, I’m happy to share some, ahem, insights on their latest product: Freemius Insights for WordPress Themes.

Programmatically Create Recurring Events with Event Calendar

February 28, 2017 / Tom

Modern Tribe’s Event Calendar is likely the most popular calendar plugin available for WordPress. I’ve talked about querying events using WP_Query in a previous post but that’s applicable to both the free and premium versions.

The premium version offers a lot of great features, but if you’re looking to programmatically manipulate the calendar, it’s a little more difficult to work with it.

there isn’t clear documentation on how to take advantage of certain features from a developer’s perspective
the places where people have asked how to do so occasionally leave something to be desired.

Case in point: When we need to programmatically create recurring events.

WordPress Admin Notices: Toggle Them With This Plugin

February 20, 2017 / Tom

Last week, I shared some thoughts on my desire to do a better job of sharing personal projects – regardless of how big or how small – on GitHub. I’ve used to do a better job of it, and I’ve since gotten out of it. (And this lead to some comments, some of which aren’t approved yet, which I still need to find some time to sit and respond.)

And I want to get back into the habit of it.

But during the conversation, I came to the realization that I have a lot of small classes, plugins, utilities, functions, helpers, etc. related to WordPress development or JavaScript that I’ve never really put on GitHub.

But in following up with what I said I’d do, I pushed up 0.1.0 of the first project in an attempt to follow-through on what I said I’d do starting with a small project that allows us to toggle WordPress admin notices.

Toggle WordPress Admin Notices

So here’s Toggle Admin Notices.

Where Do I Start With WordPress? (An Upcoming eBook)

Find The Difference in Dates Using PHP (and WordPress)

Insights for WordPress Themes by Freemius

Programmatically Create Recurring Events with Event Calendar

WordPress Admin Notices: Toggle Them With This Plugin

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