Category Archives: wordpress

Introducing the Baseline Development Wordpress Theme

February 8, 2010 – 7:53 pm

I’ve come up with some habits that I’ve developed from building themes for Wordpress over the years. One, is to start with a nearly blank style sheet. I also like to hook in several JavaScript libraries and CSS frameworks from the start to take advantage of things like JQuery, Blueprint’s CSS reset and Superfish menus.
I’ve [...]

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Wordpress’ Auto Update Is OK, But The Command Line Is Faster

November 25, 2008 – 9:38 pm

I recently found a great article about upgrading Wordpress from the command line. If you’re familiar with a command line interface at all, it’s by far the simplest way to upgrade your Wordpress install.
You can apply the same method to upgrading your Wordpress plugins.

Log in to your web server and cd to the Wordpress plugins [...]

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Incorporating Blueprint CSS Into Your New Wordpress Theme

November 23, 2008 – 9:07 am

If you’re familiar with the Blueprint CSS framework, you already know it can make your life a lot easier. So how do you get it into your Wordpress theme? Luckily, Wordpress is designed to make your life easier too.
I’m assuming your know the basics of Wordpress Theme Development. That is, at the very least you [...]

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My Private Summer of Coding

May 13, 2008 – 12:02 pm

A couple of weeks ago I met with Garrick VanBuren to talk about cullect.com. I came away from the lunch excited about two things: Trying out some of the features in cullect that I hadn’t quite understood before and giving Ruby on Rails another shot.
I went to lunch with Garrick to offer him some feedback [...]

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