WordPress 3.0 (nicknamed Thelonious) was released earlier today and StrangeWork.com is now running it! Actually I’ve been running WordPress 3.0 on various websites for the past 1.5 months, but this is the official release! Be sure to check out the newest features in WP 3.0 including the enhanced custom post type support. You can use […]
Yesterday was my 30th birthday and amazingly it wasn’t as bad as I expected. Sure I’m an old man now, but I certainly don’t feel like it. I guess turning 30 is just a state of mind. As they say you’re only as old as you feel right? I spent part of the day waiting […]
WordCamp San Francisco has come and gone and here I am a month later writing a recap about it. I had an awesome time in San Francisco, not only for WordCamp, but also hanging out in California for a week! WordCamp Day 1 was held at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The […]
In case you live in a hole and haven’t heard WordCamp San Francisco is this weekend! I’ll be attending the event with the WDS crew as usual! It’s been about 3 months since my last WordCamp so I’m extremely excited for this event! It will be great seeing all of my WordPress friends and also […]
One of the great things about working with WordPress on a daily basis is I get to figure out how to do all sorts of fun things in WordPress! The latest challenge was figuring out how to setup Facebook like username URLs in WordPress. For example I wanted http://example.com/username to load the Author’s profile page. […]
Last week Hal Stern, David Damstra, and myself had the privilege of being interviewed on the SitePoint Podcast for our new book Professional WordPress! I had a great time discussing our book with hosts Patrick O’Keefe and Stephan Segraves. We covered many different topics including how the book came to be, what separates our book […]
I’m extremely excited to announce that Professional WordPress, a book I co-authored, has hit the shelves at major book retailers nation wide! The book is also in stock on Amazon.com! This journey started in April of 2009 when Matt Mullenweg posted a blog post that Wiley was looking for WordPress enthusiasts to author a new […]
A few days ago I came across an interesting challenge in WordPress. I wanted to hide some of the default profile fields from being displayed to the users in WordPress. Specifically I wanted to hide the AIM, Yahoo IM, and Jabber / Google Talk fields. It took a bit of digging but I found the […]
A common question I’ve seen is how can you redirect a user to a specific URL after they login to WordPress. Maybe you want to hide the Admin Dashboard from your users, so redirecting them to the home page after logging in is a great way to do this. Just place the below code in […]
Have you ever needed to hide a specific admin menu from other users in WordPress? Maybe you want to hide the Plugins and Appearance menus to keep your users out of trouble. Just place the below code in your themes functions.php file to hide the Plugins menu from all users except for admin: As another […]
Brad Williams is a computer programmer and tech junkie who enjoys exploring technology and sharing his knowledge and experience with others.
CEO of WebDevStudios, Maintainn, and Pluginize. Co-author of Professional WordPress and Professional WordPress Plugin Development.
Brad resides in Philadelphia.
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