Geeks Only

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EOL for Custom Post Permalinks

I have decided that I will no longer be supporting or actively developing Custom Post Permalinks. Part of me regrets releasing this plugin in the first place. The problem with making a really simple to use plugin that extends a really really hard to understand API is that people who don’t know what they’re doing will be encouraged to act as if they do.

If I had a dollar for every time somebody tried to give their CPT top level permalinks (just like pages) and then claimed my plugin broke their site, I wouldn’t have to pay for coffee for at least a month.

The plugin didn’t break your site. You did.

Anyway, I have no time to spend on support requests; I will not be maintaining the plugin or updating it in the future. Family life and work are both keeping me too busy for that.

If you’re interested in taking over the repo for the plugin, let me know in the comments.

Posted on June 16, 2011 at 11:00 am 3 Comments

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WordPress DC Presentation

I’m giving a lightning talk at the April WordPress DC meetup tonight. It’s a case study on one of our clients at Avendi Media, MFX Solutions. Here are the slides:

Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:15 pm

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The new theme is Ghostbird by Michael Fields. link

Three Awesome Functions in WordPress You Might Not Know About

WordPress is a large application. According to Westi’s XREF of trunk, WordPress defines 188 classes, 3840 functions, and 302 constants (since the xref counts variables of all scopes, I’m not including them here). For comparison, depending on your version of PHP, there are anywhere from 2-4 thousand native functions in the language. With so many functions, WordPress is bound to have some really cool ones floating around; and unless you either read core or are active on trac and/or #wordpress-dev, you might not have seen these before.

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Posted on February 9, 2011 at 4:15 pm 4 Comments

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WordPress DC Meetup: Town Hall with Matt Mullenweg

On Monday, the WordPress DC Meetup group hosted Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, for a town hall-style meetup. This was by far the largest group we’ve gotten together, coming in at about 85 people. That’s more than doubled our previous record, and more than tripled our average.

Matt started off with a slide-show of some “never before seen” pictures (taken in DC) surrounding the creation of WordPress. After that, he started taking questions from the attendees. Continue Reading

Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:36 am

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Realization and Resolution

Last Night, Matt Mullenweg did a town hall meetup here in DC. It was really amazing, and I’ll do a full write-up of my thoughts on the meetup later. I had a realization at the meetup, though; an epiphany, if you will. The people attending (myself included) seemed to all agree on one thing: we don’t blog as often as we ought.

So I’m going to try to post at on at least 4 days of each week now. Hopefully I’ll be able to strike a balance between geeky and non-geeky topics; we’ll see.

What would you like to see me write more about?

Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:26 am

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