I have signed with Apress to write a second edition of Beginning WordPress 3, scheduled for publication this summer. It's getting a new title, tentatively WordPress for Web Developers. Why? A lot of the feedback on the first edition went like this: "Hey, this is a great book, … [Read more...] about Beginning WordPress 3, second edition: now known as WordPress for Web Developers
How to start jogging
Couch to 5K is the best way I know to go from total sloth to reasonably healthy human. It's a program of running in intervals to take you gradually from walking to jogging. You can do the intervals at different speeds on an elliptical machine, too, if you need a low-impact … [Read more...] about How to start jogging
NewsBee
NewsBee is a super-handy little RSS reader for Macs. It sits quietly in your toolbar, collecting your feeds, and lets you glance through the headlines one feed at a time. It's not a replacement for a full-fledged RSS firehose guzzler like NetNewsWire, but it does give you a … [Read more...] about NewsBee
What we’ve really lost in the last four years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVwXA7sHUlE "... We are all deprived as a nation of the of the constructive debate between competing, feasible ideas about real problems." … [Read more...] about What we’ve really lost in the last four years
The political party I can’t take seriously
I've found it increasingly difficult to talk to conservatives lately. In the middle of his endorsement for President Obama, John Scalzi eloquently explains why. Look: The modern national Republican party is a hot mess, a simmering pot of angry reactionaries driven by selfishness … [Read more...] about The political party I can’t take seriously
Spam link plugin for BuddyPress
TL;DR: I wrote a small BuddyPress plugin to restore the "mark as spammer" link in the admin toolbar and add a "spammer" button to the activity stream's actions. You can grab it on GitHub. Here's the deal... I maintain a small BuddyPress site, and it gets hammered with spam … [Read more...] about Spam link plugin for BuddyPress
How to do damn near anything with WordPress
A couple of the plugins listed here show up on Extend with warnings about not having been updated in the last two years. You can ignore those warnings. They haven't been updated because they were written correctly in the first place. Best Plugin for...? Great big list of best … [Read more...] about How to do damn near anything with WordPress
Writing: on fear and creativity, the Thud, and a hundred other things
I'm writing regularly again for the first time since the baby was born. It's glorious. I always forget, in the lulls, how great I feel when I'm able to keep it going for more than a few days at a time. As it does, the universe is throwing me things I need to see and hear. The … [Read more...] about Writing: on fear and creativity, the Thud, and a hundred other things
Six months
He's six months old today. Wow. … [Read more...] about Six months
Selective Importers
I've released another plugin! Selective Importers was commissioned by Pressbooks, and is basically a clone of the official WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr importers with one major difference: it puts the incoming content into a queue, and from there you can choose which posts … [Read more...] about Selective Importers
