Ok, so a day or two ago I worked through the widget options and the first basic widget section, called the constructor. The middle section of the widget defines how WP handles updates to the widget. We are updating the instance of the widget we saved before. Mine looks like this: This part is actually [...]
Yesterday the good people at jQuery announced the first Beta release of jQuery mobile. If you’re not already using jQuery in your development then… WAIT, WHAT?! WHY AREN’T YOU USING JQUERY?! The mobile framework provides some dead simple ways to provide a great user experience across multiple mobile platforms. The β1 release has support for [...]
I quickly gave up working with the WordPress Codex and found what I think is a better starting point from WPengineer.com. Widgets are broken down into three basic sections. The first section is the actual widget; what it’s doing and what it’s displaying. The middle section is how the updates are handled. When you save [...]
Last week I said I needed to make a fairly simple widget for a client site built on WordPress. The purpose of the widget is to basically to replicate the functionality of the “Text” widget that comes standard with WordPress, then add a couple of extra little bits of functionality to it. Granted, this could [...]
So for the first time I find myself needing to build a simple widget for WordPress. I figured I should document the journey here (mostly because 3 months from now I’ll forget it all and have to look back here). This widget has 3 basic elements: A title A text field Radio buttons to select [...]
The more I use WordPress the more easily I can pick out other sites that use it. I frequently catch myself appending /wp-admin/ to the URL to see if it’s a WP powered site. But what kills me, especially if it’s fairly obvious that the site has been created by a third party developer, is [...]
I have tried out dozens of different applications and platforms for web development, and the one I always come back to is Coda by Panic. Coda is the best I’ve found at providing a robust enough development environment while still keeping things clean and simple. It’s not for the WYSIWIG people. This if for people [...]
The two most common situations I get hired in are (1) when a client has tried, and failed, to build their own site and (2) when a client has hired a dev to build a site and it turns out to be a real P.O.S. Sure, there’s plenty of mess to clean up in both [...]
If you’re looking to add a little social media integration to your WordPress blog then their Dev center docs on Open Graph are a good place to start. They’re essentially a way to pass along information about your site to Facebook, so when a visitor on your site clicks a "Like" button the information in [...]