I make things for the web as Technology Director at Howard Development & Consulting. Apart from our regular WordPress development projects, I contribute to the open source Understrap theme framework and write and edit for MasterWP, our popular weekly WordPress newsletter. I also serve as the New Media Manager for The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation.
This is my personal blog, where I share links to my latest writing and thoughts on everything from WordPress to having five kids.
This week I updated this site’s theme to Twenty Twenty Two and attempted to take advantage of FSE (Full Site Editing) in WordPress 5.9 to design everything you see here.
Should new developers jump on the Shopify bandwagon or join the WordPress community? Here’s what I’d do if I started fresh.
Advanced Custom Fields always felt like the plugin that belonged in core. So how has ACF fared in the eight months since the acquisition?
As a long-time Lord of the Rings fan, I know what it’s like to have ALL the feelings before a major adaptation of Tolkien’s work is released.
These days I’m trying to use vanilla JS as much as possible, but more often than not, I find myself writing jQuery when in WordPress.
If you’ve been building websites long enough, you will no doubt get the inevitable pitch to build a website for someone’s new business idea. For free.
This week I updated this site’s theme to Twenty Twenty Two and attempted to take advantage of FSE (Full Site Editing) in WordPress 5.9 to design everything you see here.
The wild west days are coming to an end and podcasts in Spotify are going to function a lot more like Facebook than the open web.