I hate accomplishing complex layouts with shortcodes. Flat out, it’s one of my least favorite things and it is unfortunately a major part of a lot of ThemeForest themes, which is probably a large part of why I stopped taking theme modification projects. I don’t feel like shortcodes are intuitive to the end users of… Read more
If you are a custom WordPress theme developer, custom fields are an essential tool in your toolbox. Instead of making clients navigate a confusing labyrinth of shortcodes to create layouts, it’s so much easier to have incredibly intuitive, straightforward fields to allow them to control their data. There is a plug-in out there that is… Read more
Very few newsletters consistently grab my attention and are those which I regularly look forward to reading. Here are a two of my current favorites: The WhiP: If you do any work with WordPress, I would highly recommend signing up for The WhiP, a free daily round up of WordPress news and resources. I genuinely look forward… Read more
I do a lot of PSD to WordPress projects and they continue to be my favorite type of project to do. However, the organization, or lack thereof, within any PSD can mean a world of difference when it comes to the development time of any project. I love to operate at maximum efficiency and I… Read more
One of the many great things about WordPress is it has a massive development community who contribute to the WordPress plug-in repository. This means there are so many plug-ins out there that can make your life easier as a WordPress developer or WordPress user. Here are a few of my personal favorites: Advanced Custom Fields:… Read more
WordPress theme modifications are a great alternative if you don’t have the budget for a completely custom project, especially if there is a theme you come across that is right in line with what you want. Fortunately, there are a ton of themes out there as potential possibilities. Unfortunately though, there are so many that… Read more
One huge advantage to using WordPress is there is such a large, passionate family of developers that are constantly working on both the core of WordPress to improve it overall and building handy plug-ins for additional functionality. There is a plug-in out there to do almost anything. There are 38,000+ plug-ins available in the WordPress.org… Read more