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A Side Note ‒ I just installed WordPress 3.1-beta-1. I’m testing out the post formats by setting this as an aside.

Taxonomies in the Wild

Wow, this is the first post in a long time… sorry about that.

I’ve been doing a lot of fun things with taxonomies lately. I can’t go into too much detail here, but for the time being, I’ll leave you with my latest and favorite recent use of taxonomies: the picture here is of the drawers I got in the office today. Continue Reading

Posted on November 22, 2010 at 3:58 pm

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From the November WordPress DC Meetup

The slides from my WordPress DC meetup presentation, “Plugin Development for Beginners,” are online. I apologize for the typos and formatting issues. The former is my fault, and the latter is Slideshare’s fault.

Because slideshare was inserting unknown JavaScript into my website, I’ve removed the embedded version. You can still go to their website and see the presentation there:

http://www.slideshare.net/johnpbloch/wordpress-plugin-development-for-beginners

Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:47 am 3 Comments

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Do You Want to be a Beta Tester? [UPDATED]

I’ll give you a hint: the answer is “yes”.

I’ve finished the beta of my plugin Custom Post Permalinks, and if you want to help with beta testing, you can download the beta here: http://www.johnpbloch.com/custom-post-permalinks.zip

You should be able to install that using WordPress’ upload installation; if that doesn’t work, well, maybe you shouldn’t be beta testing if you can’t manually install a plugin…
:D Continue Reading

Posted on October 4, 2010 at 9:48 pm 2 Comments

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PSA: 3 Things WordPress Developers Need to Stop Doing

I have a few pet peeves. Okay, I have more than a few; but this post will go over three of my big ones as regards WordPress development. Continue Reading

Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:54 am 1 Comment

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Miniature Plugin Review: Event Espresso

So I recently decided to look into Event Espresso as a solution for a client’s event calendar needs, and I thought I’d share my impressions with you. 1

First of all, Event Espresso is not so much a calendar plugin as an events plugin. It gives you the ability to create events with fairly robust pricing and attendee features. Continue Reading

Notes:

  1. Disclaimer: In no way do I receive any compensation from or related to the development of Event Espresso. Nor have I been asked to review the plugin by anybody directly or indirectly connected to Event Espresso. ↩

Posted on September 30, 2010 at 10:23 am 7 Comments

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