WordPress is everywhere these days. The once blogging platform has transformed into a full fledged CMS used by over 20% of newly created websites. WordPress is easy to install, easy to use, and offers a great extensible API. When working with WordPress, it’s important to realize that scaling doesn’t happen…

Lately I’ve been dabbling in the Ruby on Rails fad that seems to be sweeping the web app world. Partly out of curiosity, but mostly out of wanting to extend my skills beyond my current skill set. So far, It’s been an interesting experience, learning a new programming language, as…

You’ve heard of it, you’ve seen it in action, but you’ve never needed to use it. That’s no excuse! It’s time to look into using Ajax with WordPress. For this tutorial, we are going to take a look at the basics of how to use the WordPress API to utilize…

For the last year and a half, I’ve been working exclusively with WordPress. Along the way, I’ve been able to pick up lots of cool tricks, hacks, and snippets that make WordPress act the way your clients want it to. One of the more recent request I worked on was…

Lately, I’ve had the fortunate luck to be involved with several Drupal to WordPress conversions. I say fortunate, because I have learned so much in this last year of development work. When you start to work intimately with a CMS’s database, you inevitably begin to form likes and dislikes. I…