Professional WordPress Plugin Development
As you might have noticed I’ve recently started reviewing WordPress plugins. I do this for free, because I think both users and developers benefit from peer reviews of plugins. I’m not saying all my plugins are perfect, they’re not. I try hard though and if someone reviews my plugin I’ll happily learn from what they [...]
How to reduce HTTP requests for your WordPress site
The web is sort of a reversed highway: you get tickets for going too slow and bonus points for speeding. Whether you’re “just” a blogger or you have an e-commerce site, your site needs to be fast. We’ve written about what to do to speed up Magento before, and I’ve mentioned caching for WordPress more [...]
Open Source, Motivations & Business
A hefty discussion has been going on about people’s motivations to develop Open Source software, starting with Alex King’s blog post and followed up by many others including Weblog Tools Collection. I disagree wholeheartedly with some of Alex’s statements. Chris Olbekson did a post I agree with more, and he also asked for my opinion [...]
Part II of my WordPress CMS series
I’ve just published Part II of my WordPress CMS series: Design & development of your WordPress CMS. Enjoy!
Emergency WordPress access
If you do a lot of WordPress development work, you’re bound to receive WordPress database sometimes that you don’t have an admin account for. We at OrangeValley at least, do have that issue. We usually test, if possible, on a database the client provides us with. We used to have to go into the database [...]
Questions and Answers
Last sunday evening I started taking questions on my Facebook page, and I promised to answer them in a blog post here, so here we go: If I have just made changes to my WP site, does it help to toggle the cache plugin? Absolutely. My SEO plugin force refreshes the cache because otherwise people [...]
WordPress developer of custom WordPress plugins
So you have an awesome web service and want to make it easier for WordPress users to make use of that? It’s time to start thinking about a custom WordPress plugin. Development of such a custom plugin doesn’t have to be hard, it only involves hiring the right WordPress developer for the job: me! Over [...]
WooCommerce vs JigoShop
On Open Source, Forking, Branding and Reputations There’s a whole ordeal in the WordPress community right now over the fact that WooThemes has decided to fork JigoShop into WooCommerce. Quite a few people have asked me for my opinion on this, given my recent trials and tribulations with copyright issues. I decided it would be good [...]
References
This is what clients and industry luminaries had to say about working with Joost: “Joost is an expert in the field of Internet Marketing, SEO & Webdev. His insight in person and on his blog, as well as the fantastic tools he develops, showcase a great deal of experience combined with the knowledge of how [...]
Presentations from SAScon
This thursday and friday was the time for SAScon in Manchester, where I gave 3 formal presentations, I’ve embedded them here (using an updated SlideShare plugin, more on that in the next post): Feeds & Microformats This panel, together with Richard Baxter of SEOgadget and James Lowery of Latitude, contained some great discussion on how [...]
Google Analytics WordPress
Track your WordPress site easily in Google Analytics and add lots of data, for example views per author & category and automatic tracking of outbound clicks, pageviews & downloads.
