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Why you should be packaging a functionality plugin with your premium theme
Read This Post: Why you should be packaging a functionality plugin with your premium themeIf you’re going to be selling a WordPress theme with cool features, please make sure to move those features into a functionality plugin to go with the theme. Your customers will appreciate you even more.
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Why you shouldn’t use the WordPress code editor
Read This Post: Why you shouldn’t use the WordPress code editorWordPress 4.9 gave a number of cool enhancements to the code editor for themes and plugins in the admin. But that doesn’t mean you should edit any PHP in the editor.
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What I learned from helping to organize WordCamp DFW
Read This Post: What I learned from helping to organize WordCamp DFWI spent the past several months as the PR and Social Media organizer for WordCamp DFW. Needless to say, I learned a lot being on such an amazing team putting on an incredible event.
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WordPress needs to stay JavaScript framework ‘agnostic’
Read This Post: WordPress needs to stay JavaScript framework ‘agnostic’WordPress currently stands at a fork in the JavaScript road. For a long time, it seemed like a formality that the core team would select ReactJS as the JavaScript framework for WordPress. After all, Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, started using it, and the new post editor, Gutenberg, was being built with it. But…
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Displaying threaded comments with VueJS
Read This Post: Displaying threaded comments with VueJSDisplaying comments in a threaded manner is challenging with the WP REST API. But here’s a simple way to do it with VueJS.
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In defense of the way Gutenberg adds oEmbeds and Shortcodes
Read This Post: In defense of the way Gutenberg adds oEmbeds and ShortcodesThere’s much debate about the Gutenberg editor, especially around these custom blocks which will replace oEmbeds and shortcodes. But it’s not as bad as it might seem.
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WordPress’ Gutenberg editor looks promising but needs work
Read This Post: WordPress’ Gutenberg editor looks promising but needs workWordPress’ eventual new post editor, Gutenberg, became available as a feature plugin two weeks ago. It certainly has it’s flaws but I think it has a lot of potential.
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Slower WordPress cycle best for moving forward
Read This Post: Slower WordPress cycle best for moving forwardAfter WordPress 4.7 dropped in December, Matt Mullenweg announced that he would be taking over and core wouldn’t have a strict timeline for major releases. Now as 4.8 is about to drop, is this slower development cycle worth it?
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Loading more posts with a button click and WP REST API
Read This Post: Loading more posts with a button click and WP REST APIOne of the features I had an issue finding a tutorial over was loading more posts via a button click. So here’s a brief tutorial on how to do just that.
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Another year, another set of WordPress resolutions
Read This Post: Another year, another set of WordPress resolutionsAh yes, the new year. That time when everyone makes resolutions that they might keep for a couple of weeks. Like I did last year, here are a few WordPress resolutions I hope to keep throughout 2017.