The incredible 2012 WordCamp Portland organizer team invited me to come down and give a presentation on WP-Cron today. As usual at any WordCamp I have spoken at, I gained much more than I gave, this is particularly true of my own session. The community interaction and Q&A portion was most insightful to me. Major

I submitted three session proposals for the 2012 Portland WordCamp and am happy to announce that I have been accepted as a speaker this year. My session is on WordPress’ built-in task scheduler, WP-Cron. A brief description: Cron is a very powerful, system level, task scheduler, but how do you set up scheduled tasks if

Quite often I come across projects where I need to create custom URLs and endpoints for specific functionality. I am currently working on a rather large API and working with the built in WordPress Rewrite API can be a major pain in the rear. Enter WP Router by Jonathan Brinely. WP Router takes all the

Grand Landram over at FreshMuse released a great post today detailing how to automatically add your Pintrest posts to your WordPress website and create your own beautiful Pintrest style board. The complete step by step walk through can be found at: http://www.freshmuse.com/how-to-make-your-wordpress-site-a-pinterest-board/

I learned a new trick with the HTML image tag <img> today. It blew my feeble little mind and I have to share it with you. You can use binary data in an <img> tag to display an image without needing a file sitting on the drive somewhere! Too Cool! I found this by accident