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My Professional WordPress Plugin Development Video Interview

Brad — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:33:17 +0000

Last October I attended BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas. During the event I did an interview with Wiley/WROX to talk about my new upcoming book Professional WordPress Plugin Development. The video interview is now featured on the Amazon page for the book! Check out the video below (ignore my derp face):

Professional WordPress Plugin Development Available for Presale on Amazon!

Brad — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:00:07 +0000

Pro WordPress Plugin Dev Book

My next book, Professional WordPress Plugin Development, is available for presale on Amazon.com!

Co-authored with Ozh Richard and Justin Tadlock, this book is the definitive guide for WordPress plugin development.

We cover a wide range of plugin dev topics including:

Plugin foundation
Creating widgets and shortcodes
Custom post types and taxonomies
WordPress coding standards and styles
Action and filter hooks
Best security practices

Pro WP Plugin Dev is the first of its kind with the many advanced topics covered. Most of these topics have never been in print!

Advanced plugin development topics include:

HTTP API including Google Map examples
JavaScript and Ajax
Cron event scheduling
Rewrite API and query handling
Multisite networks
Developer’s toolbox
and more!

This book is the next edition in the WROX programmer to programmer series. It was written by developers, for developers, and will teach you how to program WordPress in easy to understand tutorials and explanations. In fact this book comes packed with 80+ fully functional plugin examples and tutorials for download!

Make sure you reserve your copy today and don’t miss out on the WordPress plugin development goodness!

CollabPress v1.0 beta Has Been Released!

Brad — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:00:17 +0000

CollabPress v1.0 beta, the task management plugin for WordPress, has been released and is available for download! The plugin was rebuilt from the ground up by my company, WebDevStudios.com. We utilized custom post types to make the plugin fully optimized and compatible with the latest version of WordPress (including Multsite!). We also hardened the security and added more features!

Be sure to read all about the new version of CollabPress and download the beta.

Announcing Pluginize.com! Custom WordPress Plugin Development

Brad — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:49:04 +0000

I’m really excited to announce my newest venture, Pluginize.com! Pluginize is a new service specializing in developing custom plugins for WordPress. Pluginize also specializes in modifying existing WordPress plugins. This can help save development time which in turn saves you money! With prices starting at $100, Pluginize is easily affordable for any WP website.

All plugins developed by Pluginize are released under the GPLv2 software license. Pluginize will also submit any plugin developed to the official Plugin Directory on WordPress.org. We’ll even setup a support forum section dedicated to your plugin to handle any support requests that come in.

Pluginize uses our soon to be “Famous 3 Step Process” to make creating a custom plugin as easy as possible. The goal of Pluginize is to create high quality custom plugins for WordPress using an extremely painless process.

We follow the proper WordPress coding standards to verify your plugin is fully compatible with WordPress. We also put a focus on security and verify our custom plugins are as secure as possible. If you are looking for a high quality custom built plugin for WordPress, look no further than Pluginize.com!

Custom Post Type UI Plugin for WordPress

Brad — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:41:15 +0000

A few days ago I released a new plugin for WordPress called Custom Post Type UI. This plugin allows you to easily create custom post types in WordPress without writing a single line of code!

Using custom post types is the future of WordPress and really opens the software up to be a full fledged Content Management System (CMS). For example if you are building a website for a car dealer you could create a post type for Cars. A business directory could have a post type for Businesses. A movie database could have a post type for Movies, Actors, and Directors. I think you get the idea. Post types are a very powerful feature in WordPress and my new plugin helps you take advantage of the power!

Below are some screenshots showing the plugin in action:

Easily create new custom post types

New custom post type is automatically added to your admin menu

Easily view and edit existing custom post types

This plugin is a little different than my other plugins because it is primary built for WordPress 3.0, which hasn’t been officially released yet. You can however install WordPress 3.0-alpha very easily using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin created by Peter Westwood.

All custom post types are saved as a single WordPress option in the database keeping this plugin very lightweight. A future version will include creating custom taxonomies for custom post types. I hope this plugin will be rolled into the Core WordPress software at some point, but until then the Custom Post Type UI does the trick!

WordPress Theme Showcase Plugin Example

Brad — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:05:01 +0000

Below is a test of my WordPress Theme Showcase plugin. Below are the three themes I have loaded in my wp-config/themes folder. Each theme thumbnail has a “Preview Theme” link that lets you view the theme on your site. Great way to show off your themes to the public!

Fully compatible with WordPress 2.7 and WordPress MU 2.7

(Not so) Fresh

Preview Theme

Description: Designed by Wolfgang Bartelme, ported to WordPress by LEMONed, modified by XSized.

WordPress Classic

Preview Theme

Description: The original WordPress theme that graced versions 1.2.x and prior.

WordPress Default

Preview Theme

Description: The default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick.

WordPress Theme Showcase Plugin

Brad — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:26:15 +0000

By StrangeWork.com: I’m excited to announced the release of my latest WordPress plugin, the WordPress Theme Showcase Plugin.

This plugin will display all themes located in wp-content/themes in a showcase gallery with theme screenshots and preview links. This is a great plugin for designers looking to showcase their work or anyone that wants an easy way to display and preview multiple themes.

Updated: I added screenshots at the bottom of this post

This plugin is based off of the WordPress Theme Preview plugin created by Ryan Boren.

Features:

Display a showcase of your themes
Theme screenshots are displayed with titles and descriptions
Easily preview all themes loaded in WordPress
Allow anyone to preview themes, not just administrators
Works with both WordPress 2.x and WordPress MU
New settings page allows you to pick what themes are displayed

Installation:
Step 1.
Unzip the file and upload theme-showcase.php to your WordPress plugin folder.

Step 2.
Activate the plugin in your WordPress Admin section under the plugins menu

Step 3.
Insert this code:

[showcase]

Anywhere in your post or page and save. That’s it!

Download: WordPress Theme Showcase Plugin
Compatible up to: WordPress and WPMU 2.8.2

Please visit the Support Forum with any bugs, comments, feature requests, or hate mail!

Theme Showcase Screenshot 1

Theme Showcase Screenshot 2

Theme Showcase Settings Page

WordPress MU Aggregator Plugin

Brad — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:57:13 +0000

By Strangework.com: I’m excited to announce the release of my first WordPress plugin, the WordPress MU Aggregator Plugin.

This plugin will display the most recent posts from all blogs in a WordPress MU network. The Aggregator only returns blogs updated in the last 30 days.

Created for WordPress MU 1.5.1

Features:

Supports permalinks, non-friendly links (querystrings), or a mixture of both
Pulls new posts directly from the database, not an RSS feed
Main WordPress MU install is not displayed in the list
Style-less to allow for easy implementation in any theme.
Easy to read comments for easy edits and styling
More features and sidebar widgets coming soon

Installation:
Step 1.
Unzip the file and upload wordpressMU-aggregator.php to your WordPress plugin folder.

Step 2.
Active the plugin in your WordPress Admin section under the plugins menu

Step 3.
Insert this code:

Anywhere in your theme. That’s it! Change the number to alter how many posts are returned.

Download: WordPress MU Aggregator Plugin v0.5

Please comment with any bugs, comments, feature requests, or hate mail!