Updated 4/1/2016: Pluginize.com has relaunched as a new source for premium WordPress plugins and products from WebDevStudios. 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 […]
Philadelphia now has a Meetup group dedicated to WordPress! I wanted to organize this new Meetup group to help WordPress addicts, like myself, find each other in the City of Brotherly Love. One of the great aspects of WordPress is the community that surrounds it and Meetups are the local lifeline of that community. The […]
Today I’m giving a free WordPress Security Webinar with Cory Miller and the WebDesign.com team. The live screencast starts at 12pm EDT (11am CDT). I plan on demoing a hacked website to show what hacks are capable of. I will also be covering top security tips and plugins for your websites and blogs. And lastly […]
StrangeWork.com is sporting a fresh new look! I haven’t switched the theme on this site since I launched it in 2006, so it was long overdue. I decided to go with a very clean minimal style using the Genesis theme framework. In fact I’m running the default child theme for Genesis. I plan on tweaking […]
One challenge in WordPress is saving meta data on a taxonomy. For instance imagine you want to save additional data on a category or tag. Currently there is no wp_termmeta database table to store taxonomy meta data. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to save a single ID against every category in […]
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. […]
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.
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