Through our connection with hosting company Voxel dot Net we sometimes get a call to help out with things that don't directly relate to hosting. A few months back, such a call came in the form of MjsBigBlog.com. MJ runs ...
by Emiliano Jankowski on September 20, 2011. Posted under:
Blog,
WordPress.
We have been chatting about various changes that make your WordPress site more useful for your viewers. Today, we will look at adding a custom logout link into your theme or plugin, so users can close their sessions.
This is not ...
by Emiliano Jankowski on September 13, 2011. Posted under:
Blog,
WordPress.
We have been talking in previous posts, about the relevance of the readme.txt file, when you want to put put your plugin into the WordPress plugin directory. This is the text that explains about your plug in, answers common questions, ...
by Emiliano Jankowski on September 2, 2011. Posted under:
Blog,
WordPress.
We are developing a big plugin with a big xmlrpc interface, and sometimes it's hard to test your functions, and see what are the results.
Googling a bit I found a very cool tool. It's open source so you can download ...
Have you ever gotten really stuck working with an application that is supposed to be easy, to the point that you want to rip your hair out or throw your Macbook Pro out of the window? Well, save for the ...
The story goes like this: web designer meets plugin, crafted with loving care by a freelance web developer. Designer downloads said plugin. It works great! Solves the problem! Does really useful and awesome things. So the designer uses it on ...
by Emiliano Jankowski on April 19, 2011. Posted under:
Blog,
Tech Tips.
When working on advanced website projects for Dinkum clients, there are a few questions I'm almost guaranteed to get asked at some point in the development cycle:
How can we improve the user experience? Make it slick, smooth, intuitive, engaging. ...
WordPress is the single most commonly used CMS and blogging platform in the world, running over 18 million sites as of this writing (current stats here). Possibly more striking is that people actually use their WordPress sites! ...
by Emiliano Jankowski on March 11, 2011. Posted under:
Blog,
WordPress.
In my past few entries I've been exploring some of the basics that make Wordpress "tick" and how we use these tools to increase functionality for your site within the WP ecosystem. As you've seen, these posts aren't targeted ...
by Emiliano Jankowski on February 11, 2011. Posted under:
Blog,
WordPress.
Before continuing adding features to our WordPress plugin, we need to know what hooks, actions and filters are.
What does WordPress say?
"Hooks are provided by WordPress to allow your plugin to 'hook into' the rest of WordPress; that is, to call ...