This weekend, my life purpose was reawakened. And it was important. I had the chance to not only attend, but also speak, at the inaugural WordCamp US in Philadelphia. But before we go there, le...
https://www.technosailor.com/2015/12/06/how-i-rediscovered-purpose/
This morning, at WordCamp US, I will be giving a lightning talk to a room full of WordPress professionals from around the globe. This talk was given earlier this year at WordCamp Baltimore as a f...
https://www.technosailor.com/2015/12/05/asynchronous-wordpress/
Tomorrow is my birthday and I’m going to be 39. That’s one year shy of 40! Yikes! I want you to give to someone else. Read on. This past year has not been the easiest in my life. In fact, it ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2015/09/05/wish-me-a-happy-birthday-give/
It’s such a weird feeling. Since I began this blog in 2004, I’ve been able to say I was truly hired exactly one time. That day was Jan 9, 2013. In 2004, I was employed by Northrop Grumman. In...
https://www.technosailor.com/2015/03/22/new-adventures-with-10up/
Ever have those times that you'd like to share a piece of media but have it start at a particular time? I did recently, and figured I'd share my solution. It turns out, WordPress does not support...
https://www.technosailor.com/2015/03/09/adding-a-time-start-to-wordpress-media-embeds/
As I sit here tonight, at a bar, typing on the WordPress app (which will undoubtedly make my fingers cramp typing long form), I’m thinking about my life. What has made me a man, a developer, a ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2015/02/27/if-i-had-to-do-it-all-again/
Back in 2004, I, like many other people in the WordPress community began blogging. We didn’t, I don’t think, get into WordPress because we wanted to write code or build a career. We got into ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2015/02/04/weekly-blog-post-challenge/
If you’re in Baltimore and are a developer, or if you are in Baltimore and know someone who is a developer… Heck, if you’re in DC and are a developer or know a developer, we need you. (You ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2014/05/21/looking-for-a-top-notch-wordpressphp-developer/
Not too long ago, WordPress sites around the world started getting attacked with automated botnet traffic trying to brute force admin passwords. The other day, the official Twitter account of the...
There’s a brute force attack underway on a global scale. Massive. The attack vector? Keep attempting user/pass combos in an automated way until a breakin happens. If your WordPress site gets ha...
https://www.technosailor.com/2013/04/12/wordpress-hacking-and-cleanup/
As WordPress 3.6 goes to beta, it’s awesome the way the new default theme, TwentyThirteen (that I’m using on this site), handles a variety of post formats.
Today, I went about setting up a local WordPress install for some development I am doing at work. The problem that existed is that I didn’t want to bring the database from the existing developm...
Today marked the drop of WordPress 3.5 and I want to celebrate. Tomorrow, I’m going to give away three autographed copies of the WordPress Bible. You have to be on Twitter. I apologize to those...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/12/12/contest-free-copies-of-the-wordpress-bible/
For 7 years, I've been publishing these articles every time a new version of WordPress comes out. Since version 2.0. It's been a long run. It began as a need to fill people in about new features ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/12/03/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-3-5/
As the holidays kick into full gear, and people start looking at a short sprint to gift times with family, I am offering a 30 minute phone consultation related to WordPress for $100. This is a gr...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/11/23/black-friday-deal-30-minute-wordpress-consultation/
Recently I concluded a sizable project that involved deep integration with an external API. I was responsible for creating content pages based outside of WordPress. To be clear, the pages would...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/09/10/tutorial-building-custom-rewrite-endpoints-in-wordpress/
Six years ago, the first WordCamp ever was held in SF and it became the launching point for many local regions and cities to continue the conversation, learning and educating around WordPress. It...
Everyone likes data visualizations so I wrote a plugin that will make the quick and secure creation of Pie Charts, Bar Charts and Line Charts easy. The answer is: Easy Graphs. Easy graphs is very...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/06/21/wordpress-plugin-easy-graphs/
Consider this post a public service announcement. It’s a common misconception that if a plugin is deactivated in WordPress, that you are immune from performance or security issues. On it’s fa...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/06/19/eliminate-unused-wordpress-plugins/
WordPress 3.4 is around the corner. It’s currently beta4 which means a Release Candidate or three will be needed before it drops officially. If you want to test what’s out there now, the way ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/05/23/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-3-4/
WordPress has tons of APIs to do tons of things. It really does. One of the cool ones that I’ve been using a lot lately, has been around for a bit. It’s the Ajax API. Sure, you could write yo...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/02/08/tutorial-using-wordpress-ajax-api/
Back in October, I announced my departure from WP Engine. At that time, though I didn’t talk about it on this blog, I decided to take some time off, more or less. Since 2006, I’ve been hard a...
I don’t often write tutorials. I probably should. But normally it’s only when someone asks me something and I think, “Hey, self… you should write up how to do this”. As if a book wasn�...
https://www.technosailor.com/2011/12/14/tutorial-adding-an-oembed-provider-to-wordpress/
WordPress 3.2 has been downloaded a killer 12M+ times. WordPress as a whole continues to grow and is touted to be in the approximate 14% of the web zone. That’s ridiculously huge and it astound...
https://www.technosailor.com/2011/11/17/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-3-3/
I don’t often write tutorials but since the rebuild of the WP Engine website some months ago, I have been turned on to the use of a brilliant combination of tools made for development in a Ruby...
For some time, I’ve felt there was a change coming and today, I’m ready to announce that my role within WP Engine is changing. Starting today, I have transitioned into an advisory and consult...
https://www.technosailor.com/2011/10/03/changing-roles-at-wp-engine/
There’s some confusion about how WordPress organizes it’s Subversion (SVN) repository. Most SVN repositories are organized into three main directories, as is best practice — trunk, tags, br...
https://www.technosailor.com/2011/09/30/how-is-wordpress-subversion-organized/
Yesterday, I published the 12th in an ongoing series of blog posts since December 26, 2005, where I take my own look at major WordPress releases and write a hopefully helpful article about featur...
https://www.technosailor.com/2011/06/21/wordpress-release-word-clouds/
Photo credit Randy Stewart. WordPress 3.2 will be released soon (at the time of this writing, it is in RC1 which essentially means it is done and being tested). This is an exciting release as it ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2011/06/20/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-3-2/
A few months ago, I let you know that WordPress Bible: Second Edition was available for pre-order. That has changed. It is now out and available to be ordered. Amazon, as usual, is the best way t...
https://www.technosailor.com/2011/04/01/wordpress-bible-2e-released-and-a-contest/