Jeffikus

I recently did some work for African Cartel (I previously worked on the original site) to move them over to using the WooCommerce plugin instead of some of the other WordPress e-commerce plugins out there. I also wrote a content schema plugin so that they didn’t lose their content when moving from theme to theme, and created another plugin that allows them to link 2 different post types together.

Click the title to read the case study on the WooThemes site.

I’ve been saying I’ve been wanting to put up a new design for my blog for quite a while now, but as it happened I just never got around to it so last night I decided enough was enough, so here it is – the new Jeffikus.com It’s based on Elefolio, which makes sense seeing as I work at WooThemes! And I figured it was about time that the Tumblog plugin author starts actually using the Tumblog plugin!!! Kinda cool to use your own code for yourself. I plan on making a couple of design improvements, starting with my logo. Any thoughts or suggestions?

What a year! So much has happened both personally and professionally for me, and I’ve much to be grateful for…. (more…)

For those who follow WooThemes, you will no doubt have seen our Tumblog Themes such as Cinch and Crisp, and will know that they give you similar functionality to a tumblr style blog from within WordPress. So if you didn’t buy one of our tumblog themes you wouldn’t be able to have that functionality, but now you can for FREE! In addition to this, you can buy the Express for WordPress iPhone app and publish content to your Tumblog enabled WordPress blog right from your iPhone!! See the official announcement page here: http://www.woothemes.com/2010/10/tumbling-along/
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I’ve been doing some modifications to the default WordPress Twenty Ten theme and I needed a custom taxonomy page template for my taxonomy archives – taxonomy.php – to take advantage of the WordPress template hierarchy. So I made a generic one for the Twenty Ten theme seeing as it doesn’t come with one.  So now your custom taxonomy archive pages don’t have to say “Blog Archives”, instead with this it will output the Taxonomy as well as the Term, similar to the Category archive page. Simply download the file below, extract it, and put taxonomy.php in the root of your Twenty Ten theme!

  Twenty Ten Taxonomy Page Template (1.3 KiB, 1,686 hits)

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. I’m a big fan of this framework, having worked on a custom MVC framework and CakePHP in my web app building days, and I find it a really great framework to keep my skills sharp while not being frustrated with a steep learning curve.

Check it out: CodeIgniter 1.7 – https://www.packtpub.com/improve-coding-productivity-with-codeigniter-1-7/book

I was working on some jQuery today in a WordPress theme I’m working on, and I wanted to simulate a keyboard input so that I could force a jQuery plugin to work in the way I wanted it to without hacking its core.  Here’s how you do it (more…)

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. (more…)