Last Saturday at WordCamp Philly, I ran a session on “Building a Plugin in One Night”. Together, with about 50+ attendees, we brainstormed ideas for a new WordPress plugin that I could code that night. The brainstorming went great, coming up with some good ideas… like plugins to: Help first responders after a disaster (Big [...]
I’m happy to announce the launch of CharityGoal. This is a site we built for a client whose goal is to enable anyone to raise money for any (legal) cause. CharityGoal gives you an easy way to accept donations online, a beautiful landing page, and quick access to social network sharing. For those interested, the [...]
Yesterday Adriaan Pienaar, a.k.a. “Adii Rockstar” of Woo Themes posted on his blog about a tough client asking, Am I being irrational? He later followed up on Twitter, calling this customer a “dick client”. So glad not have had a repeat of yesterday’s interaction with a specific dick client (http://t.co/P6six9a) today. about 18 hours ago via Twitter [...]
Here are the slides from my talk: Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins (ppt). And FYI, slides from my similar talk at WordCamp Philly (pretty similar, but more stuff on GPL in the beginning) What You Need to Know About the GPL, Download: ppt, pptx
I’m excited to say that I’ve been accepted as a speaker at WordCamp Columbus this coming Saturday. I was a last minute addition… so thanks to the WCC folks for working that out. (Shout out to Angie Meeker: @angiemeeker / blog) My talk is on “Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins”, which is a [...]
Here is a variation of some code I found on Yoast.com to disable the WP admin bar for non-admins only. function yoast_hide_admin_bar_settings() { ?> <style type="text/css"> .show-admin-bar { display: none; } </style> <?php } function yoast_disable_admin_bar() { if(!current_user_can(’administrator’)) { add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ ); add_action( ‘admin_print_scripts-profile.php’, ‘yoast_hide_admin_bar_settings’ ); } } add_action(’init’, ‘yoast_disable_admin_bar’, 9); Just copy and [...]
The WP Page Tree plugin is a nice plugin. It shows a tree view of pages in your WP site… but it’s been broken since about version 3 or so. I’m sure there are other tree view plugins that work well, but I liked that one. And it is actually an easy fix to get [...]
We make these all the time, but Kim finally put together a page with placeholder images for most of the standard banner sizes for ads. Enjoy: Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download
Here are slides from my talk. I was told a video of the presentation will be up at WordPress.tv sometime soon. I’ll post a link when it is. And I’ll try to get these in SlideShare or something similar. I was having trouble with their site earlier. Business Models for WordPress Plugin and Theme Distribution [...]
Update: No longer streaming. The plugin works great. Kim is going to make it pretty, then I’ll post to WordPress and do a right up. I’m streaming live right now while I work on a WordPress plugin. Follow me at ustream.tv/channel/stranger-studios. I’ll be working on a plugin for a feature that we’ve done a million [...]
