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Premium or Proprietary Themes?
There has been a flurry of discussion lately within the WordPress community as 200+ themes were removed from the WordPress Themes Directory. Had Matt Mullenweg and the other parties involved in this...
View ArticleWordPress: Commited to open source
This post is the second in a series looking at the business of theme design using WordPress based on a discussion that Automattic lead Matt Mullenweg gave on a recent episode of WordPress Weekly...
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What’s on WordPress.tv?
Automattic has launched their own Youtube “visual resource for all things WordPress”. The initial load of content features tutorials and support oriented videos, including a high quality production...
View ArticleWordPress Developer Pub Night
Courtesy of the Ottawa WordPress Developers Group: Tuesday July 7th, 2009 will be the first Ottawa WordPress Developers Pub Night. Location and time are subject to interest from the community. Current...
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Template – Retail Locations
Capture and display custom data types using ICE and More Fields Building on the concept of category templates which I started with the FAQ template tutorial last week, this tutorial will cover how to...
View ArticleThe Power of Custom Fields
Custom Fields are the way of enabling authors to store meta-data against an individual post / page in WordPress. The Codex describes some basic uses for this meta data such as displaying your current...
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Solving a custom field query quandry
How to filter for multiple custom field key / values Rideshare Custom Fields captured via More Fields As I mentioned at the end of my last post on the Power of Custom Fields, I recently started working...
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WordPress Themes and the GPL – again?
NOTE: I originally wrote the bulk of this post circa February 2008 (In fact, I had to go re-load a 2.1 version of WordPress to find it – how very LiveJournal the admin console was back then) ” The...
View ArticleMigrating WordPress MultiSite to Media Temple Grid Server
If you have ever setup a WordPress Multi-Site aka a WordPress Network, you know that it is not quite the famous 5-minute install that the single site version can be. The few bumps in the road that you...
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Introducing: Idealien Rideshares
I first had the idea to build a rideshare form / board system around the time of release of WordPress 2.7. That initial iteration of development was a series of theme template files, lots of...
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Idea Fragments for an Ottawa WP Meetup Presentation
UPDATE: I went with a mix of the first two options to create WordPress from A(nsible) to V(agrant) which I presented at the WP Ottawa Not Beginner meetup in January. I enjoy the fact that creating...
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Going with the Gravity Flow – Custom Step Types
Gravity Forms Framework Overview – By Steven Henty The minimum viable product of Gravity Forms was launched in 2009 as a plugin that had an excellent UI to create nice looking forms and offered a...
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Wordcamp Ottawa – 30 features in 30 lines of code or less
http://idealienstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/WordCampOttawa-Lightning-Printable.pdf I will get the snippets from slides out as a github gist early next week. There’s a whole afternoon of Word camping...
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A good nights’ REST with ACF
A week ago, I was proverbially standing in a green field and curious how others might tackle the implementation of a core piece of the project I was starting. I had already spec’d out the meta data...
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Getting Crazy with ACF Conditionals
I’ve been working on a project lately that makes extensive use of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and the post object / taxonomy field types in particular. As my last blog entry outlined, it integrates...
View ArticleGoing with the Gravity Flow – Bulk Workflow Entry Creation
I hardly felt that ~20 lines of code is worth an entire blog post. So why are you able to read this as more than a tweet? The more I looked back at the potential approaches to solve this problem I...
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Meta thoughts on meta data with WordPress Rest API
One of my always-download podcasts for leveling up on WordPress is Apply Filters with @pippinsplugins and @BradT recently put out a call for development-centric questions. I offered up a question in a...
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Can Gutenberg be Guten-great?
This weekend I enjoyed WordCamp New York City as well as a gorgeous 6-hour drive through the Adirondacks to get there. Setting GMaps to avoid toll roads brought me south along the Taconic State Parkway...
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WordPress Themes and the GPL – again?
NOTE: I originally wrote the bulk of this post circa February 2008 (In fact, I had to go re-load a 2.1 version of WordPress to find it – how very LiveJournal the admin console was back then) ” The...
View ArticleMigrating WordPress MultiSite to Media Temple Grid Server
If you have ever setup a WordPress Multi-Site aka a WordPress Network, you know that it is not quite the famous 5-minute install that the single site version can be. The few bumps in the road that you...
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