Automattic looking to open a professional office in Austin

May 27th, 2008 @ 9pm : no comments : Share This
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A post from Andy Skelton that Automattic might be looking to open a professional office here in Austin. continue...

Are you a Geek living around the Austin area?

May 10th, 2008 @ 8am : no comments : Share This
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Calling all Geeks in the Austin area. There is a planned meetup between the Geek Austin / Refresh Austin and WordPress Austin groups this May 21. The meeting location is Union Park on W. 6th St. For more information check the Geek Austin page. So bring some cards and plan on some serious networking with fellow geeks in Austin. continue...

Revisions WordPress plugin update 1.8

May 3rd, 2008 @ 9pm : 5 comments : Share This
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I’ve just released an update to my Revisions plugin released just a few short weeks ago, Revisions. The update to the plugins are in areas both architectural and UI based. continue...

SimplyExclude Plugin for WordPress

April 27th, 2008 @ 8pm : 61 comments : Share This
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Have you ever been working on a client WordPress project, or maybe your own blog and needed to exclude a Post category from the Front page? Or needed to exclude a Page from being included in a Search? Keep reading. continue...

Versioning your Blog content

April 18th, 2008 @ 4pm : 11 comments : Share This
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Have you ever made an edit to some Post, saved the results then sometime later wished you had an undo option? Or worse have you setup a site for a client and they ‘accidentally’ wack one of the Pages? Then they call you to ‘fix it’. Well I have some good news for you… continue...

Check WordPress Core Files for Hacks

March 1st, 2008 @ 9pm : 6 comments : Share This
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Over the last 2 years I’ve worked on literally dozens of client WordPress projects. Many of these projects have been the simple cut the theme and go. Wham-Bam Thank You, Pay me, projects. The rest have been like normal projects. Tons of code written, different developers between phases of the site, custom plugins, themes from hell with very dynamic functionality. I hate to admit but in my early days exposed to WordPress, I found it easier to make mode direct to the core files before writing a plugin to extend the core functionality. This of course creates a problem because I don’t always remember what changes I’ve. continue...

Austin WordPress March Meeting

February 22nd, 2008 @ 10am : no comments : Share This
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The meeting has been scheduled. A plan has been made. The first Austin WordPress meeting of 2008 is ready set and a go. If you live in Austin and use WordPress please join us at the Gingerman for drinks and discussion on March 3, 2008 around 7pm. Check out the details on Meetup.com http://wordpress.meetup.com/173/. continue...

Update to WordPress Relocate File Upload plug-in

April 7th, 2007 @ 9am : 5 comments : Share This
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A small update to the plug-in I wrote last year. This plug-in will move the File Upload box that is just below the content entry textarea. You can download the latest version of this plugin-in now. relocate_file_upload_v1.1.zip continue...

WordPress Austin group growing

April 2nd, 2007 @ 6pm : 3 comments : Share This
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Just under two weeks ago I created a new group on Meetup.com. The purpose of the group was to get people together to talk about WordPress. continue...

A new sheriff in town

March 22nd, 2007 @ 12pm : 5 comments : Share This
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So this morning I hit the office minding my own business. I had a very bad drive in to work with the rain. I avoided the early morning office conversations because I wanted to keep my head focused on getting some client project work accomplished. This client work involves using WordPress to host the site. But the client also wants to host an Events calendar. continue...