Tag: WordPress
CMS Tree Page View has been adopted — by me!
I’ve been a part of the WordPress ecosystem for a long time now. Such a long time in fact, it’s been the platform upon which I’ve built my livelihood. That’s come in many forms: consulting, custom development, and products like SearchWP. I got started wedging my way into the WordPress world primarily by blogging what […]
Posted: July 21, 2020
These canaries aren’t dying
The web design/development ecosystem is an interesting one. Technology flourishes, careers blossom, trends come and go, and lives are changed both for creators and consumers. I’ve been thinking about canaries a lot lately. Not the birds themselves but the adage. I think I’m seeing (exhibiting?) a lot of canary-like behavior right now by observing an […]
Posted: April 23, 2019
(Selfish) What’s Next for Web Development?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the future in a lot of ways and I’m stuck in a bit of a loop when it comes to what I’d like to do in the next five years development-wise. I’m talking specifics, kind of focusing on the stuff that doesn’t really matter: my tech stack. We always […]
Posted: April 08, 2019
Morten Rand-Hendriksen and Gutenberg
If you haven’t had a chance to watch this recent interview between Torque Magazine and Morten Rand-Hendriksen I highly encourage you to do so: Morten is one of the people I really look up to for his eloquence in being able to verbalize things in such a way that resonates really well with his listeners […]
Posted: September 01, 2018
Using Parcel to Bundle your Vue Powered WordPress Plugin
I’ve been working with Vue for the past little while and it has very much struck a chord with me and how I like to work. I think if you’ve been sticking with modern JavaScript development in any way you’ve got similar feelings about your latest workflow. Because I work with WordPress-related projects so much, […]
Posted: June 07, 2018
WooCommerce SKU Search Direct Link to Product Variation
I was recently working with someone who made extensive use of SKU searches on their website. The issue they were running into when using SearchWP was that while the WooCommerce Product Variations were being found when searching for the variation SKU, the resulting permalink pointed to the parent product. Wouldn’t it be nice if the site […]
Posted: December 15, 2016
6 Essential Principles Of Designing a High Converting Site Search Experience
It’s no secret that I strongly believe in a powerful on-site search. I was thrilled to see this article outline some really great implementations of on-site search, but one specific bit stuck out to me: A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases, searches performed by only […]
Posted: May 01, 2015
Restricting Access to Custom Post Types Using Roles in WordPress
Restricting access within the WordPress admin can quickly become an intimidating place to work. When it comes to access control there are a number of really great solutions to restrict access to content on the front end, but there’s a decent learning curve when preventing logged in users from accessing various aspects of the back […]
Posted: May 01, 2015
Add Pinterest Rich Pin OpenGraph Data for WooCommerce Products
Update: this has been generalized into a WordPress plugin I recently built a WooCommerce project for a client through Iron to Iron and the client requested integration of Pinterest Rich Pin snippets. Pinterest has proven to be a really valuable marketing vector for many online shops so I thought there must be something out there […]
Posted: February 02, 2015
Hierarchy 1.0 is Here!
Hierarchy is now at version 1.0! Check it out and find out more about the changes that went into it. A long time ago I wrote about a plugin I built that I’ve used on every client site since doing so. It solved a problem that exists only if you use WordPress in a certain […]
Posted: November 20, 2014