Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

I’ve built a number of custom Widgets for projects, but image fields were always a bit of a hassle usually involving copying and pasting of image URLs. Based on the work I’ve been doing with Attachments, I thought this experience could be improved upon.

I recently read WordPress 3 Ultimate Security by Olly Connelly and I’m impressed. At nearly 400 pages, the book is overflowing with lots of information on an unwieldy subject that (rightly) keeps some people away from unmanaged hosting. If you’re interested in keeping your WordPress sites as secure as possible, this book might be for you.

Attachments Pro 2.4.3 has just been released, and with it comes a new field type as well as a beta migration script that will allow you to migrate your Attachments data to an Attachments Pro instance. I’m happy to bring these two often requested features to fruition, and I hope you enjoy them!

Measuring impact of plugins on WordPress loading – Benchmark | Dev4Press. Working with any system comes with some inherent responsibility. Systems can be abused just as much as they’re used and it’s the abuse that tends to give a great system a terrible name. I think that happens with WordPress in certain ways. While a [...]

A long standing (for what reason I’ve yet to understand) debate surrounding WordPress is whether or not it’s a “true” content management system versus a blogging platform. I’ve just released Hierarchy, a new WordPress plugin that will hopefully bridge the gap some still see.

Over the past month or so I’ve been working on one of the plugins I’ve had in the works for a bit. This one makes integrating a front end upload system with your WordPress theme a piece of cake. Development will continue to be active, but I’d love to get some initial feedback.

I’ve just finished reading Internet Marketing with WordPress by David Mercer. The book, like a number of Packt books I’ve read lately, takes a more abstract approach to its title. The majority of the information is useful aside from the niche (in this case, WordPress) and only becomes restricted to it periodically.

How the Postname Permalinks in WordPress 3.3 Work » Otto on WordPress. One of the crowd favorite features brought in WordPress 3.3 was the ability to further customize your permalink structure to use only the postname as the slug. Prior to 3.3 this was extremely costly and didn’t scale very well, especially once your page [...]

Merry Christmas, everybody! To celebrate the holiday (and the release of WordPress 3.3) Iron to Iron will be giving away free copies of Attachments Pro for the next 12 days! Things will get more interesting as time goes on as well. For example, today we’ll be releasing a single copy of Attachments Pro. Tomorrow there [...]

Pods Development Framework 2.0 by Scott Kingsley Clark — Kickstarter. Pods 2.0 has been a work in progress for some time now. The core team has been doing everything we can to make it happen, but the fact of the matter is we’ve got families to support and bills to pay. Working on such a [...]