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
I recently purchased the treasure from Bundle Hunt and found the contents to be pretty rad. I’m particulary looking forward to getting to grips with Billings (a invoicing, project management, time tracking app for mac/iPhone), Subernova (online project management tool), and reading the Smashing Magazine ebook on Mastering Photoshop. The Bundle Hunt concept seems similar to the whole MacHeist vibe, and includes some other useful design stuff like icons and WordPress themes.
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!
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
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.
So…I haven’t posted for a while, but here I am in the snow in Austria on holiday with the Woothemes crew! Check out more of our adventures at the Woo on the Slopes site. For now, here’s a pic or 2