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  • Hiding container elements based on the state of the Modified Date block in WordPress using CSS

    On my single post template I like to show the date the post was most recently modified to make it clear that it had been edited since it was first published. I also do this on my portfolio entries – which you can see on my Where I series of photographs on the bottom left-hand…

  • Favorite Toots now available on the WordPress plugin directory

    Back in early February I submitted the Favorite Toots WordPress plugin I had been toying with on my own website to the WordPress plugin directory. Starting today, it is available publicly there and people can search for it from their own WordPress Admins. The source code is available on GitHub if you’d like to contribute…

  • Introducing the Favorite Toots WordPress Plugin

    One of the primary ways I find new accounts to follow on social media is by eavesdropping on other people’s favorites. Many social networks make each account’s favorites public but Mastodon does not (yet?). So I wanted a way to show my favorites publicly so that others can look through them. And I’m hoping others…

  • My appearance on This Week in WordPress #285

    My thanks to Nathan Wrigley for having me as a guest on This Week in WordPress #285. (YouTube/Apple Podcasts) Show notes There are a few links on the WP Builds website for this episode but I thought I’d share some of the links I mentioned in the episode as well. It was a lot of…

  • WordPress Plugin: Filter comments by Webmentions

    ⬇ Download on GitHub Donate A simple WordPress plugin to add the option to filter comments by Webmentions in the WordPress admin. A new Webmentions option is added to the list. I’m sprucing up Webmentions on my personal blog and I found it convenient to be able to filter my comments by Webmentions in the…

  • Photographers be aware, WordPress may convert your JPEGs to WebP soon

    This isn’t a “the sky is falling” post. However, photographers that use WordPress should be well aware of upcoming changes regarding image file formats. Sarah Gooding, writing for WP Tavern: WebP, an image format developed by Google, which is intended to replace JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats, will soon be generated by default for…

  • WordPress mobile apps to be simplified

    Paul Von Schrottky on the Make WordPress Mobile blog: Over the years, the WordPress app has evolved to meet a diverse range of site administration needs and use cases. Features like Stats, Reader, and Notifications were introduced with the hope of meeting some of these needs. However, these features require the Jetpack plugin or a…

  • Nyasha Green on the issues within the WordPress community

    Nyasha Green recently published a post that covers a few issues she’s seeing within the WordPress community and offers solutions on how to fix those issues. One issue she calls out is that the community relies on free labor: Paying people for their labor is simply not what the spirit of the WordPress community stands…

  • Using Docker to build a WordPress theme

    If you have no idea what Docker is or how it works, this blog post won’t help you too much. For that, I recommend Julia Evans’ Zine How Containers Work! I recently wanted to build a premium WordPress theme to offer here via my website. I started, finished, and released the theme in record time…

  • Cypress – A premium portfolio theme for WordPress is now available

    Cypress on WordPress Cypress is a simple way to create an online portfolio using the world’s leading website builder WordPress. Artists from all mediums; painters, photographers, designers, sculptures – all need a way to showcase their best work online. Cypress is an affordable way for artists to set up a website to control their brand,…

  • Gutenberg, the new content editor for WordPress, is very good

    I’m writing this post using a new post editor that is coming in the next version of WordPress code-named, and likely named for all-time, Gutenberg. In fact, I’ve written several of my most recent posts, including this photo post of South Iceland, using this new editor. Gutenberg is an editor that allows a WordPress author…

  • Matt Haughey on the mobile WordPress app

    Matt Haughey vents his frustrations with WordPress: Over the past week I’ve written a bunch of posts while out and about using the iOS WordPress app, often with photos of things I was seeing. But unless I was on WiFi or had 5 bars of LTE connectivity, I would get a Posting Failed, Retry? message.…

  • JSON Feed WordPress plugin

    Manton Reece just released the JSON Feed WordPress plugin into the WordPress directory. Making it mad easy to install and support the new spec. WP Admin → Plugins → Add New, then search for “jsonfeed”. I’ve updated to this version in the directory so that all future updates come from there as well.

  • Attending NEPA WordPress Meetup for March 2017

    Last night was the NEPA WordPress Meetup for March 2017. It was a panel discussion regarding how agencies use WordPress with Jack Reager of Black Out Design (our gracious host, thanks Jack and team), Liam Dempsey and Lauren Pittenger of LBDesign in the Philadelphia-area, and your’s truly of Condron Media. As these types of events…

  • Angelina Simms on the Philly Burbs WordPress group

    Angelina Simms published her experience at WordCamp US this year. Note this bit about the Philly Burbs WordPress group: Too often, we are surrounded by people who act like they are concerned about your well-being out of self-interest and totally disappear if you don’t fit into their grand scheme of things. That is definitely not…

  • Attending the Philly Burbs WordPress meetup

    Do you know the visible signs of a strong community? If you’ve ever attended a Philly Burbs WordPress meetup then you definitely do. Last night my new coworker Tucker Hottes and I drove the 2.5 hours to Pheonixville, PA for this month’s WordPress meetup in the Philly Burbs meetup group. What we saw during the…

  • FADE INTO A WORDPRESS LOGO

    INTERIOR, COFFEE SHOP, HOUSTON, TEXAS Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, wearing a WordPress tshirt, brainstorms over a latte. MULLENWEG, internal dialogue: "How can I get WordPress in front of the Wix customer base for free?" … MULLENWEG: *opens WordPress on his Mac* …. MULLENWEG: Publishes: "The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint" to his WordPress-powered blog.…

  • A date picker to schedule posts in WordPress

    On Sunday mornings I make some coffee, sit down at my computer, and choose 7 images to publish to my blog throughout the week. After I’ve chosen and edited the images I schedule them in WordPress to be published each morning at around 9:00am. I can then go about my week knowing that each day there…

  • How I create a combo feed using WordPress

    When my site was on Barley I had something we called a "combo feed". A combo feed combined all content types (what we called custom post types) into my main RSS feed. This allowed someone to subscribe to a single feed and get all of the blog posts, statuses, photos, and audio bits that I publish.…

  • “Needed: Rockstar, expert, ninja, WordPress developer. $100.00 budget”

    “Needed: Rockstar, expert, ninja, WordPress developer. $100.00 budget” Job boards are funny.

  • NEPA WordPress Meetup February 2016

    Last night was the NEPA WordPress Meetup for February 2016. The weather got a bit crazy yesterday and so the organizers, Phil & Joe, decided to take the meetup online rather than at Coalwork. So that’s what we did. We chatted using Google Hangouts and answered questions presented to us via Slack. It seemed to…

  • Microblogging with WordPress

    Manton Reece, on his blog, about the fact that he’s using WordPress to “tweet”: I’m very excited about the potential for microblogging. For the last year I’ve been working on a new platform around this stuff. By adopting some of these tips for WordPress, your microblog will be ready for my platform, but more importantly your…

  • Five for the Future (of WordPress)

    Speaking of Matt Mullenweg (I’m catching up on his blog)… he has a great suggestion for how companies that benefit from WordPress can contribute to its longevity. He suggests: I think a good rule of thumb that will scale with the community as it continues to grow is that organizations that want to grow the…

  • More thoughts on the future of WordPress themes

    Chris Lema, on how things have changed in the WordPress theme industry: Today people treat themes like IKEA furniture – easily replaced and never intended to last for years or decades. He makes some excellent points. In case you missed it, Lema’s piece is in response to this.

  • The State of the WordPress Theme Industry

    David Perel, of Obox Themes and SalesGenius, on The State of the WordPress Theme Industry: These days there is very little to choose from between theme companies. Themes look the same, have very similar features and all offer decent support. If you look at the industry’s biggest market — business themes — you will be hard-pressed to know who…

  • VelocityPage for WordPress

    One of the most common misconceptions about Barley is that it helps you with page layout in some way. It does not. You can’t change anything about a page’s layout using Barley CMS, our editor, or our Barley for WordPress plugin. Barley is specifically designed to help you edit the content of a web page.…

  • Presenting at the NEPA WordPress Meetup

    Tonight I had the privilege of presenting at our local NEPA WordPress Meetup. We were also privileged to host the event at our space in Carbondale, PA. ![](http://static.public.getbarley.com/colin.getbarley.com/barley-media-uploads/2016/3/2014-01-14 19.37.37-1457702949814.jpg) My presentation was entitled The History & Future of Inline Editing. I’m sure there will be a video posted online as soon as it is ready.

  • Barley for WordPress was first seen in Sydney, Australia about 36 hours before it came out

    The Barley team had the opportunity to sponsor the beer and pizza for a WordPress Meet up in Sydney, Australia earlier in the week. It was about 36 hours before we officially debuted Barley for WordPress to the public. Photo by Will Brown. The above photo is those attending the WordPress Meetup watching a special…

  • Thanks to everyone who helped make Barley for WordPress a reality

    Inspired by Shawn Blanc’s post wherein he thanked the people that helped make The Sweet Setup a reality I thought I’d take a few moments to thank everyone that helped make Barley for WordPress, our team’s inline editing plugin for WordPress, a reality. A plugin of this scope has no one author. It takes an…

  • A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress

    There is a growing sentiment that WordPress – though incredibly well supported and ubiquitous – is simply far too complex for some projects and for some customers. Obviously, I think so too. That’s why my company is building Barley. Here are a few other notable people that seem to believe the same thing, that while WordPress…

  • WordPress turns 10

    I remember the first time I ran WordPress on my local computer. It was amazing. Within a few moments I was up and running with just a bit of PHP that could power hundreds of blog posts. Before I was using b2 (the name WordPress sort of had before that project became WordPress) I was copying and pasting HTML…

  • WordPress for bands

    WordPress.com recently published a new page dedicated to showcasing how bands and musicians can use the service to its full potential. I’ve always been surprised that WordPress.com didn’taggressivelygo after moretargetedverticals (besides VIP publishers) like music, movies, and so on. MySpace, Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter all make boatloads of cash off of these verticals and WordPress.com…

  • A fork of the Recent Photos widget by Asad Iqbal for WordPress

    I’ve been planning on figuring out a simple way to show the latest photo from my mobile photos category on the sidebar of my site for a while. Today I did a quick search for a plugin that would simply add a widget that I could drag/drop into place to do exactly that. I came…

  • Why the WordPress theme customizer matters

    Andy Adams of The Theme Foundry: I’d like to suggest that competitors like Squarespace are going to start eating WordPress’s lunch on the “ease of use” front if WordPress does not adapt. Adams goes on to say how important the theme customizer is to helping WordPress to keep its competition at bay. Remember, Matt Mullenweg…

  • The Theme Foundry’s themes all support WordPress’s new theme customizer

    The Theme Foundry, who is arguably doing the best work in professional WordPress theming, just announced that all of their themes already support WordPress 3.4’s new theme customizer. We’ve been keeping an eye on WordPress 3.4, and now that it is released we’re proud to announce that our 4 most recent themes (Portfolio,Chalk,Duet, andAnthem) support…

  • WordPress 3.4 released

    The latest version of WordPress has been released featuring a pretty great live theme preview feature. Theme developers will need to do a few things to make their themes compatible. Upgrade!

  • Matt Mullenweg on a much more simple WordPress

    First, yes please. Now, Matt Mullenweg on what tablets should mean to WordPress: How we democratize publishing on that sort of platform will not and should not work like WordPress’ current dashboard does. It’s not a matter of a responsive stylesheet or incremental UX improvements, it’s re-imagining and radically simplifying what we currently do, thinking…

  • The WordPress.com API

    Interesting. WordPress.com now has an API. Which is slightly different than WordPress simply having the use of the decade old Meta-Weblog API. This opens up features on WordPress.com like reblogging, following, etc. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

  • WordPress Post formats Admin UI

    WordPress 3.1 exhibited an underlying feature that didn’t reveal itself in the UI in much of any way. Post formats. Post formats are sort of like categories of posts but are used to "handle" different post types in different ways. You can [read more about Post formats over on the WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post\_Formats). [Crowd Favorite](http://crowdfavorite.com/) has…

  • WordPress for iOS 2.9

    A very, very nice update of [WordPress for iOS](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880?mt=8) was been released. The application for iPhone and iPad now has a simple content editor and the QuickPhoto feature can now post images from your Library instead of going straight to the camera. Although I wish the app supported Markdown format (rather than just HTML) I’ll…

  • How to set post slugs using WordPress for iOS using Slugger

    Justin Blanton finds that his Slugger WordPress plugin, which he adapted from my own Slugger plugin back in early 2007, is still useful today when publishing from WordPress for iOS on either the iPhone or iPad. I concur as I use WordPress for iOS extensively.

  • WordPress for iOS 2.7.1. Two key updates.

    Even though there is yet to be an announcement on the WordPress for iOS blog, 2.7.1 has been released on the App Store and it comes with two key updates (at least from this blogger’s chair). Photo and video uploads now work on iPad 2 Made the post status (such as "Draft") more clear in…

  • From the NFL to WordPress themes

    Drew Strojny, former NFL player for the Eagles, Giants and Rams, had been moonlighting as a designer and open-source WordPress theme developer for years. The theme business, which is supported via support-membership-subscriptions (great business plan) is really taking off.  So much so that he and his wife are doing that full time via The Theme…

  • Email comment replies to commenters using the CommentMailer plugin for WordPress

    Sorry for the long title but I’m guessing that this post will be found by people searching for this more than those of you that subscribe to my blog. For a long time, actually ever since I got an email from Marisa McClellan stating that she replied to a comment I left on her blog,…

  • WordPress’ Twitter API

    WordPress.com, to be specific, now has an API that mirrors the Twitter API. This effectively allows any Twitter client, such as Tweetie or Hahlo, to read and write to WordPress.com powered blogs only by changing their API endpoint. Hopefully this feature will be available via a plugin sometime in the near future? /via Tony Schneider.

  • WordPress.com supports geotagging – Where is the plugin?

    WordPress.com now supports geotagging for both the blog itself on WordPress.com and each individual post. Although there have been a few plugins that support this for the self-hosted WordPress none look as promising as the one running on WordPress.com now. So, where is the plugin?

  • WordPress 2.9 and oEmbed and Viddler

    While perusing Aaron Brazell’s always great 10 things you need to know about [the latest upcoming version of WordPress] for WordPress 2.9 I noticed that it will have oEmbed support. Back in June 2008 I added an oEmbed service to Viddler. That means that in the next version of WordPress you’ll be able to embed…

  • Feature list of WordPress 2.9

    Speaking of WordPress 2.9, here is an exhaustive feature list from Dougal Campbell.

  • WPAPI.org – A stats API for WordPress.org hosted plugins and themes

    WPAPI.org, the brain-child of Dean Robinson (who has been [mentioned a few times here on First Initial, Last Name](http://cdevroe.com/?s=dean robinson)), is an easy to use stats API for plugins and themes hosted on WordPress.org. Simple idea, perfectly executed.

  • What I learned from the WordPress.com situation today

    Have you ever said something and say "That didn’t come out right"? What about this? Have you ever been a little less than patient and do or say something a little bit too soon? Or, or maybe this? Have you ever thought you were doing something exactly the way that you should only to look…