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Category Archives: WordPress

Why I Moved from Rails to WordPress Development

A few years ago, I made a big life altering decision to move back from Ruby on Railsdevelopment to WordPress development. The first real programming language I learned was PHP. I started with WordPress back in 2005 but shortly after that I abandoned it forRuby on Rails. It was popular and not a lot of people were using it just yet. So… Continue Reading

In the Last Week

I’ve been thinking about how to write this post for the past week. I kind of wanted to start by saying how excited I am to be going down this new road of freelancing. I also was wanting to start it out by how I must be crazy for leaving a dream job for another… Continue Reading

Change is a Good Thing!

Change is a Good Thing!

I figured it was time I should put an update of what I’ve been thinking about doing on here. After spending some time on the debating on where my priorities were going to be for things I wanted to do this year, I’ve decided that I’m going to be moving some of my blog posts… Continue Reading

Announcing Headway Toolbox!

Announcing Headway Toolbox!

I wanted to take a minute and announce Headway Toolbox, a new site I’m starting with fellow Headway Support Gal, Caitlin. We’re combining forces for good and launching a new premium tutorial and webinar site.

Donations via PayPal?

Donations via PayPal?

So I found this a little useful and I’ll be adding it to my site very soon. I got to thinking about the time I put in to blog posts, screencasts, etc. and thought wouldn’t it be nice to have people that enjoy what I bring give me a little something in return? Sure everyone… Continue Reading

Easy Way to Change jQuery to Google API

Easy Way to Change jQuery to Google API

So I get this question asked a lot through the Headway forums, or just people in general wanting to know how they can switch to loading jQuery from Google’s CDN of JS libraries. So I figured I’d post here.

Use Custom Fields with WordPress?

Use Custom Fields with WordPress?

Do you ever use custom fields with your posts and have trouble getting them to display? Well here’s a quite little line of code to add into the post loop to get them to display.

Headway Skin: Pressrow Beta Now Available

Headway Skin: Pressrow Beta Now Available

Yesterday marked a day where Chris Pearson’s final theme, Pressrow, was removed from WordPress.com. Well I decided to stop what I was doing and see what I could get done in a few hours. What I’m releasing right now is a rough beta. I still have a list of things to work on,

Icons, Menus, and Headway, Oh My!

Icons, Menus, and Headway, Oh My!

I was in the Headway forums the other day and had someone ask how to create ??a menu that contains icons. I gave him the basic,’well you need to use CSS and do this and that to get it to work,’ type answer, and I got back the general ‘well I don’t know CSS or… Continue Reading

Welcome Headway 2.0!

Welcome Headway 2.0!

Headway Themes has recently gotten a major update. Not only did they release a new version of this premium theme, but they also released a new site design, a new support site, and new documentation built from the ground up to go along with it. Some of the features they’ve built in to this release… Continue Reading