Category: WordPress

  • I’m Not Changing, I’m Evolving

    I want to make a change to how I use social media, specifically Twitter. There are essentially two large groups that make up the majority of my followers: WordPress folks, and anti-Trump folks. I feel like the latter group is distancing me from the former group. Most of y’all know my political leanings, so I…

  • #wpmom and the WordPress Community

    I have been involved in the WordPress community for about 6-7 years, and I’ve always been impressed with the people that I’ve met. Coming from a .NET programming background, the WordPress community could not have been more different. I’m not bashing on .NET, it’s just that with the advent of social media, specifically Twitter, I’ve…

  • How would YOU build this solution?

    In my organization, we have a 24×7 help desk, and they asked me to create a custom theme for their use to track system outages, and provide daily summaries to upper management. This will be on a WordPress Multisite installation and the subsite will be private for only the helpdesk and management. I first installed…

  • Programatically Changing Users’ Roles in WordPress Multisite

    Background: I inherited three different WordPress installations (each one on a separate closed network) from a developer that was leaving our contract for a government civilian position.  I had a grand total of five days to pick his brain about WordPress, and our infrastructure.  It sucked, greatly. We had two custom Roles in our installations:…

  • You Can Help, You Just Might Not Know It Yet

    I have been a WordPress developer for about 3 years, coming from a .NET background. I run three different installations of (finally) WordPress 3.2.1 on three separate networks. I converse on a daily basis with some of the best and brightest of WordPress developers, from the hobbyist to the WordPress core developers. I have been…

  • WordCamp San Francisco – A Conference That Changed My Brain

    Here I am at home, near Baltimore, MD, blasting some metal music (Machine Head & Trivium, just in case you were wondering, @jarret) while typing this, and I really can’t get this shit-eating-grin off my face. WordCamp San Francisco 2011 was beyond anything that I could have imagined. I was in a town car going…