I just found out something super cool. Beaver Builder has built into it a mechanism for rewriting core modules. We have a project that I’m working on where I don’t want to use the Beaver Builder button styles, I’d much rather use the Bootstrap.js button styles that come with the theme. Instead of writing a …
Let’s say that you that you are building a custom application with BuddyPress (like maybe this) and you had a need to programmatically create a BuddyPress group. Now there are ways to customize the BuddyPress group creation process that I will cover in a future post, but there is actually a very simple function that …
This past week I attended WordCamp Seattle and boy was it amazing! One of my favorite sessions was a panel on Becoming a Better WordPress Developer. During this session, the panel was asked how a developer could become a better developer. The general consensus was to surround yourself with professionals in your field that constantly …
It is with great excitement and yet equal sadness that I am moving on from 10up starting April 4th. The past year with the company has been amazing! I have learned so much and made so many friends. I feel like I have really been able to grow with the company and have been able …
Leaving Friends – 10up Web Engineer to Freelancer Read More »
Several weeks back I had my world turned upside down when I took the advice of Luke Woodward, my team’s Senior Web Engineer at 10up, to hook up code stepping with Xdebug to help troubleshoot a problem I was working on. Boy was that a good idea! I had been intending to hook this up for …
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Twitter seems to have lit up today with complaints of web hosting downtime. I sympathize but am happy to say that none of my sites went down today. Why? Because I migrated from BlueHost. Is it that easy? To be perfectly honest, switching from your cPanel host (HostGator, BlueHost, etc.) can be a real pain …
