The Victoria Debacle

April 6, 2014

I am sitting in the dining room of a rustic wood cabin on Pender Island. Seated around me are six amazing people with a deep passion for WordPress. All morning the air has been buzzing with conversation on the future of WordPress and how to make it even more awesome. Everything was different just one

How to easily load assets on custom WordPress admin pages

February 10, 2014

There are many plugins for WordPress that add functionality to the wp-admin area. These plugins often load additional assets such as CSS or Javascript. Polite developers will save resources and ensure those assets only load on the intended page. When you add a page to wp-admin with add_menu_page() or add_submenu_page() it returns a hook name.

Creating a two way sync between a Github repository and Subversion

December 3, 2013

Another git <> svn post? As many of you know I have been on a quest to get Jetpack core development moved from the WordPress.org Subversion (svn) repository to Github (git). As part of this process I setup an experimental Jetpack repository to see how synchronization works between git and svn. Lets just clear the

Episode 64 of WPwatercooler, featuring Jetpack and Me!

December 3, 2013

My very first appearance on WPwatercooler happened this week with Episode 64 all about the Love and Hate of Jetpack. My colleague George Stephanis was also on the show, which was lucky for me cause I was not feeling too great. He did most of the heavy lifting in representation of Jetpack. Thanks George!