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Jason was on WPwatercooler again. Summary. 7 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
The WPwatercooler is a great show, and I was on it again this past Monday with my BWAwWP co-author Brian Messenlehner. I may make it a habit to get on that show. And I may make it a habit to follow up...
Heartbeat API for WordPress 7 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
As part of the JavaScript chapter for our upcoming book Building Web Apps with WordPress, I got a chance to research and work with the Heartbeat API that is new to WordPress 3.6. It’s a cool little p...
Thoughts on GPL WordPress Plugins and Themes 1 Aug 2013 | 03:45 am
This was originally posted as a comment on a Reddit thread of all things, but kind of too good to stay there. WordPress is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The basic gist of that license is that ...
Continuing the WPWatercooler Discussion on Rapid WP Core Development 30 Jul 2013 | 06:17 am
In his 2013 State of the Word Speech, Matt Mullenweg shared his plans to release two major versions of WordPress later this year in addition to 3.6 coming out this week and to generally increase the r...
Why We Changed The Domain of Our Book’s Site to BWAwWP.com 30 Jul 2013 | 05:30 am
(Originally posted to my Google+ account.) Just a quick post here RE why we decided (without hearing explicitly from the WordPress foundation) to change the domain of our book’s site frombuildingweba...
Our Book: Building Web Apps with WordPress 26 Jul 2013 | 09:25 pm
Brian Messenlehner (@bmess) of WebDevStudios and I (@jason_coleman – you follow me right?) are finishing up a book for O’Reilly called Building Web Apps with WordPress. The book is for intermediate to...
Mistake #3: Starting with Design 28 Jan 2013 | 09:39 am
I’ll focus on WordPress sites and themes here, but this advice applies to any website built using an existing theme as a framework or just for inspiration. I’m a big fan of using existing premium the...
WordPress as an Application Framework 12 Jan 2013 | 07:19 am
I wrote a comment over on Justin Tallant’s blog post titled WordPress is not an application framework. My comment got pretty long, so I figured I would also post it here. You should read Justin’s post...
Mistake #2: Playing Designer 8 Oct 2012 | 04:00 pm
Unless your business is website design or something else in the arts, you don’t need a beautiful website. A nice looking website is a bonus, but make sure you’re working towards a functioning website ...
Mistake #1: Lack of Goals 3 Oct 2012 | 09:45 pm
One of the biggest mistakes made by website owners is to have a website that is totally detached from any business activity. Maybe your website is beautiful. Maybe it has tons of information about yo...
