It’s sad but it is time to say goodbye to my first plugin

On July 2nd, 2010, Wim Mostmans, an item reviewer for Code Canyon approved my very first plugin for sale. It was called “WordPress Font Uploader” and it allowed site admins to upload font files to their site and apply them to any HTML element on the site by using standard CSS selectors. Not only was…

2013 in Review

I rather enjoy year-end write ups. It gives me a chance to reflect on what went well, what could have been better, and what the future might hold. As a whole, 2013 was an excellent year for me and my family. As anyone who read my 2012 year in review post, I am very open…

Speaking at PressNomics 2013

I am thrilled and honored to announce that I will be speaking at PressNomics, the conference for those that power the WordPress Economy, later this month in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the second year for PressNomics to take place and if the event is even half as good as it was last year, it will…

Easy Digital Downloads – One Year Old

Easy Digital Downloads, the e-commerce plugin for selling digital products I wrote, is one year old today. Developing the plugin has been an amazing journey for me and I’d like to share some of the highlights from the last 365 days with you.

WordSesh Presentation with Brian Krogsgard

This morning I had the pleasure of speaking about various topics on plugins with Brian Krogsgard for WordSesh, an online series of presentations for 24 hours straight from developers, designers, writers, and other members of the global WordPress community.

Support Forum is Fully Functional Again

Yesterday I posted about the status of the plugin support forums; tonight I have an update for everyone. After quite a few hours of head scratching, code tinkering, and manual importing, the support forums are now fully functional at their new home: https://pippinsplugins.com/support/

Support Forum Status

As you will have noticed if you have attempted to get support for any of my plugins over the last few days, the support site has been having issues. All of my sites located on one particular hosting account went down Thursday night; this includes my main site (this one) and also my support site.…

Easy Digital Downloads v1.5 Released

Version 1.5 of Easy Digital Downloads was released a few hours ago and, to be perfectly honest, it’s awesome. It is by far the largest release we have pushed out yet and includes some really phenomenal new features.

Affiliates Program for Plugins

Now that I have moved my plugins from Code Canyon to this site, it’s time to provide a new way to reward those of you that help spread the word. As of today there is a new Pippin’s Plugins affiliate area where you can register as an affiliate and gain commissions for every successful referral.

WordPress Community Crowd Funding

Myself and other members of the WordPress community are in the process of launching a site that will help crowd fund WordPress projects. After tweeting about the idea, a huge amount of community support has already been garnered for the project and a lot of prominent members of the community are interested in the project.…

WP Push Releases Restrict Content Pro Extension

WP Push is a fantastic project by Chris Klowsowski that brings push notifications from your WordPress sites to your iOS or Android devices. Today Chris has released a new extension for WP Push that integrates with my Restrict Content Pro, a plugin that provides a complete membership system inside of WordPress.