I use Gmail for my personal email, but there are some basic features that it’s missing out of the box. Gmail Labs are basically like browser extensions but for your Inbox. There are a lot of different features that can improve your productivity. These are my three favorites: Canned Responses […]
Rocket Surgery Made Easy is basically a follow-up book to Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. Where Don’t Make Me Think focused on users’ behaviors and how we make decisions, Rocket Surgery Made Easy is more focused on how to implement user testing in the simplest way possible. Chapter 11 is titled, “The […]
Towards the end of May, I started reading Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin. The book is broken down into three sections. The first is described as the “feel-good” section, where the rules are introduced and detailed. The second section of the book focuses […]
Using .gitignore to Combine Local WordPress Installation and Version Control One of the things I didn’t realize when I was getting Bitbucket set up (for the first time) was that it makes a lot of sense to combine your version control files and your local install files. Otherwise, you’re more […]
A lot of developers who aren’t in the WordPress space ask me why they should use WordPress. Most WP developers would probably agree with me that two of the biggest reasons are: To provide clients/companies with a Content Management System that is easy to use and doesn’t require experience in […]
This post is the first of a series of posts on how to dive into WordPress theme development. Going from developing simple HTML/CSS sites to using a Content Management System is a very big step. You will save a lot of time by having your CMS handle all the content […]
Today I’m going to tell you about one of my favorite tools for WordPress, GenerateWP. This is a great resource for both beginner and advanced WordPress developers. Fill out just a couple fields and have your custom post type, custom query, sidebar, or taxonomy PHP generated for you. You can […]
