The WordPress theme design deadline has been extended again, and the new “deadline” is December 19. I’m not complaining—it just give me more time to work on my submission NewsPlay.
I listened to a really interested podcast last week: an interview with Matt Mullenweg, creator/founder of WordPress. Matt mentioned it today on his blog (good one to subscribe to, if you are a WordPress fan) and it reminded me that I took some notes to post for those who might be interested in the bullet [...]
Yesterday was a really eventful one for the design and development of NewsPlay. I can’t take all of the credit, either. There were quite a few friends and readers involved in different elements. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I lost a lot of sleep developing this concept. And I think (hope) it was worth it. [...]
It’s been a few days since I’ve updated this project, and I’m pretty excited about where this is headed now. The pressure is definitely on to develop something awesome, since Cory Miller has released NewsPixel and Adii has released Premium News Theme in just the past week or so, it seems. (Reviews of each will [...]
If you’ve been reading my writing for any period of time, you will know that I am a freak when it comes to organization. I love knowing things are in their proper place. So it’s no wonder that I have gone nuts over 37signals products Basecamp, Highrise, and Backpack for project and contact management. I [...]
Any fans of Alex King’s work with Share This, a popular WordPress Plugin used to share pages via email, is now available in version two. This version allows for sharing via IM and texting. It looks really cool, with some backend customization options and stat tracking as well. Look for more coverage of it in [...]
Since early on WordPress blogs have offered an automated image resizing feature on their blogs. For every image that is uploaded to a WordPress sytem, an image is created in the same location at a smaller size.
The advantage of this is that the image is of a smaller file size, which means it will take [...]
WordPress Candy and Liquidcity have released a PDF with lots of quick reference tags and calls for WordPress.
After yesterday’s video blog announcing I will be entering Design Vitality’s theme design competition that I mentioned a couple of weeks back, it’s about time to get some specifics laid out. There are a number of prizes involved, but the best part: the winner is chosen by a vote. So, ideally, by making Theme Playground’s [...]
My name is Ryan, and I am a freelance web developer. Turns out I also enjoy blogging. Read more.
