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Slides: A Presentation Theme 19 Jun 2013 | 08:44 pm
You know, when some people are asked to do a presentation on a subject, they start by thinking about what they’re going to say, how they’re going to say it, and what their presentation will contain. M...
I’m not a fan of orange… 12 Mar 2013 | 10:42 pm
I’m not a fan of the color orange. Dunno why. I prefer soothing and relaxing colors, like blues and greens. But the new Twenty Thirteen theme for the next version of WordPress is very, very orange. Si...
Jetpack and the Infinite Scroll 17 Nov 2012 | 12:38 am
Everybody seems to be talking about Photon. Nobody really seemed to notice the Infinite Scroll feature added to the latest Jetpack. While it is slightly buggy, it’s pretty neat nevertheless. It’s also...
More Internationalization Fun 20 Sep 2012 | 03:10 am
So in my last post about Internationalization, I covered some non-obvious things that you should consider when adding translation capabilities to your code. Today, let’s add to that by covering some n...
Making a custom control for the Theme Customizer 4 Aug 2012 | 03:34 am
Okay, a quick one today. Let’s make a custom control for the customizer. Back in the first tutorial, I talked about the various controls available in the customizer. Specifically I mentioned image han...
Theme Customizer Part Deux: Getting rid of Options pages 28 Jul 2012 | 11:46 pm
Last time I wrote about using the Theme Customizer to supplant/add to your existing options. But what if you’re writing a new theme entirely? Do you even need an options page? How many options does ...
How to leverage the Theme Customizer in your own themes 5 May 2012 | 11:33 am
Note: Everything I’m talking about here, including the code, is in beta mode. It will be subject to change. I’ll update this post after release to fix any code changes that may occur between now and t...
Internationalization: You’re probably doing it wrong 29 Feb 2012 | 11:15 am
Fun fact of the day: about 37% of WordPress downloads are for non-English, localized versions. So as a plugin or theme author, you should be thinking of localization and internationalization (L10N an...
Theme/Plugin Dependencies 7 Feb 2012 | 12:05 pm
In trying to figure out what to talk about at WordCamp Atlanta, I remembered a question put to me in WordCamp Birmingham. The question was how can a theme developer easily make a plugin-dependency in ...
Using SFC? Got an email from Facebook? 27 Jan 2012 | 11:19 am
Some people have been forwarding me this email message that they received from Facebook: We currently detect that your app is using the old JavaScript SDK (FeatureLoader.js). This library will no lon...
