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…
Getting out of our ocean to explore the islands of open source is one of the best ways that we can expand our horizons, strengthen our skill sets, and build better relationships.
I am a workaholic. It is a fact I have known for several years and also one I am trying to change. As I have worked to build a successful business over the last few years for my family, myself, and for others, I have often found myself working countless hours, often late into or…
2012 has been a great year for me. I expanded my plugin development business, I started a large community-driven plugin project, I contributed to WordPress core and plugins that were not mine, and my wife and I started a family by bringing our first baby girl into the world.
Theme Thrift.com, a new project from Jake Caputo of Design Crumbs, is a “Pay What You Want WordPress Themes” theme shop. Unlike most theme shops, Jake isn’t boasting dozens of themes, or even two or three. Instead he is offering just one theme at a time for a “Pay What You Want” price tag. Each…
Restaurant Engine is a new hosted service (running on WordPress) that provides everything needed for a restaurant to get their site up and running in no time. I don’t usually write news posts about things like this, but as I had the privilege of working with Brian Casel on many aspects of the project, it…
In an effort to continually boost the exposure of my latest WordPress plugin, Restrict Content Pro, I’m going to give away three free copies of the plugin to my Twitter followers. If you’re not familiar with it, Restrict Content Pro is my premium content plugin that allows you to easily transform your WordPress website into…
If you are a Facebook user, then this is your chance to win a free copy of my Simple Notices Pro plugin. All you need to do is like my page on Facebook, and as soon as I reach 100 Likes, I will choose three random users who liked the page between now and then,…
This tutorial explains the process behind writing a Maintenance Mode plugin for WordPress such as the one I released a few days ago: CGC Maintenance Mode. The final result of this tutorial will give you an advanced plugin capable of putting your site into maintenance mode, while allowing authorized users to view the site normally,…
Related Posts Plugins are very popular as a method for WordPress users to display related content at the end of their posts, providing the reader with additional relevant content. Typically, related posts plugins use Post Tags to compare posts and find those that are related to the currently displayed post.
This plugin lets you upload your own font files and apply them to any element of your website without requiring a knowledge of html or css. All .otf and .ttf font files are supported.
A club membership store is one that requires customers to pay a membership fee in order to purchase (or access for free) the products available in the catalogue. A common examples of this types of store would be a WordPress theme shop that grants access to all available themes with the purchase of a membership.
Restrict Content Pro is my premium subscription management plugin. WP Jobs Manager is a free plugin from Mike Jolley for managing job listings from WordPress. This is a simple extension for both plugins that allows you to restrict jobs posting to members who have paid subscriptions through Restrict Content Pro.
A simple MailChimp integration plugin for Restrict Content Pro.
I run a dedicated support forum for my premium plugins, and it uses the wonderful new bbPress 2.0 forum plugin. The support forum has been active less than a month and already I’m seeing an influx of spam replies to the actual support topics posted by real users. Of course this is annoying and, at…
