WordPress: How to move all your plugin code to your theme file so you think you are not actually running any plugins

August 4, 2013

Note (02-27-2014): This article keeps getting traffic and tweets. Though following the steps will actually work this piece is satire and should not be done. See the last section for more details. In this article I am going to attempt to show you the evil of plugins in WordPress and how you can quickly and

How to add unit testing and continuous integration to your WordPress plugin

August 2, 2013

(Quick note: WordPress.org is changing some things. I will update this post if it becomes invalid. See http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/08/06/a-new-frontier-for-core-development/ ) Unit testing WordPress plugins is a subject that has come up quite a bit lately. Adding tests into your WordPress plugins is a great idea from a quality control  perspective. It will help ensure that your

At my first WordCamp San Francisco and loving it!

July 27, 2013

I am currently attending my first ever WordCamp San Francisco. I have been to many WordCamp and WordPress Meetups around the United States and Canada and San Francisco is kinda of the WordPress Mecca. It has been great coming together with all the people I have met both in person and online. WordPress is an

Thursday: Flying to the top of pyramids with a Jetpack

July 20, 2013

(Note: There are still a few pictures that need to be uploaded) Apologies on not posting this Thursday. Thursday was a very full and busy day. By the time I was able to post and update I did not feel like using my brain :). Instead I now write you from thousands of feet up

Tuesday in Mexico

July 17, 2013

Ok ok! I know this post is a few hours late. Miguel and I were debugging an issue until 1am and I just did not feel like writing a post with my eyes mostly closed and feeling pretty fuzzy… I was pushed off the high dive into the deep end of the pool today. We