I recently got interviewed by Dan Milward for GetShopped.org as part of their 12 Awesome Examples of Custom Post Types article, in particular the innovative ways we’ve implemented them at WooThemes. I gave him the low down on what we did with Estate and the Tumblog themes.  There’s some really interesting examples in the article, check it out.  Thanks Dan!

Read the full interview here

Something I found useful while brushing up on my PHP MVC knowledge was this book by Packt Publishing. It’s called CodeIgniter 1.7 and takes you through the fundamental concepts of MVC within the CodeIgniter framework including a chapter on basic CRUD functions.

For those who have been too busy playing Starcraft 2 to notice, WordPress 3.0.1 has just been released! 50 minor issues have been dealt with and the download counter for 3.0.x stands at a whopping 11 million!

Seeing as how I’m big on getting behind your sports team, I saw an initiative by White Wall Web (Disclaimer: I used to work for them) to get the internet into the World Cup Feva by adding what they call a FlagTag to your site.  I think it’s fantastic, see my FlagTag on the right of the site.  But what most people (who cant code) don’t know how to do is add the code to their website.  So I thought, let’s use my WordPress experience and slap together a plugin.  No code editing, just a simple download and upload, activate the plugin, and choose your flag! It’s that easy.

Download it here or here.

Found this awesome WordPress Cheat Sheet. I found it very useful…

I was working on a project last week and needed to use the categories in WordPress to seperate content, but also needed to provide an RSS Feed of only one of the 2 categories. So I did a quick Google – because I figured someone else has probably done this before – and sure enough I found this :