Category: WordPress

Plugin developer, Core contributor and support volunteer. Yeah, I’m a WordPress fan!

  • Things I hate about other people’s WordPress Plugins

    Things I hate about other people’s WordPress Plugins

    I love WordPress plugins but there are things that other developers do that, as a user, really frustrate me. Now, to be clear, these are issues I have as a user and don’t represent the views of WordPress or Automattic.

    In this case I’m going to kill two birds with a single stone with just one plugin that I’ve just installed – To Top.

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  • YouTube Embed version 5 – what you need to know

    YouTube Embed version 5 – what you need to know

    I’m just testing version 5 of my YouTube Embed WordPress plugin. There are a couple of major changes, which are particularly noteworthy…

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  • WordPress Plans

    WordPress Plans

    It’s no good, I’ve spent too long away from my WordPress plugins and need to spend more time on them. The last few months I’ve been revamping my site and, due to other circumstances, spending far too long having to re-visit as many of my 1000+ posts and editing them. However, I gave myself a deadline and that’s the end of this week. My post editing is done and any work this weekend will be final tweaks to the site itself.

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  • How WordPress Transients Work

    How WordPress Transients Work

    What is a transient?

    A transient is a way of storing data in WordPress for temporary purposes – it’s often used for caching, for example. Transients can, optionally, be given an expiry timestamp, after which time they will be deleted.

    How to use transients?

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  • Advanced CSS Tricks & Techniques

    Advanced CSS Tricks & Techniques

    CSS is my weak spot in web development, so I’m always happy to come across useful compilations of useful snippets – in this case CSS that allows you to do some pretty whizzy stuff, really easily.