I’m very excited to announce Professional WordPress Plugin Development 2nd Edition! One of the highest rated WordPress development books ever released is back with an all new updated version for 2020! Justin Tadlock is returning as a co-author on the new book. We have also enlisted the truly brilliant John James Jacoby to help round […]
WordPress is hugely popular, powering over 23% of the entire internet today. As you can imagine, a good portion of these websites are not in English. Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to work on more multilingual sites in WordPress. One thing I have learned is that WordPress Multisite is a perfect […]
Recently I’ve been thinking about my book Professional WordPress Plugin Development, and whether there’s enough demand for a second edition. Over the years I’ve received some amazing feedback from readers, many of whom have since released plugins on WordPress.org after reading the book. The book is an amazing resource for anyone creating custom plugins in […]
If you’ve ever created a custom plugin in WordPress, you should be familiar with the standard plugin header code. The information set in your plugin header is displayed under the Plugins admin menu in WordPress shown below: There is a lesser known piece of information that can be defined in your plugin header that tells […]
Over the years I have used a lot of WordPress plugins. From free, to paid, chances are at some point in my WordPress career I’ve probably tried it. Below is a list of my current favorite premium plugins for WordPress. Gravity Forms – Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past 3 years, you’ve […]
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):
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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