Author: Brian Coords
Most of my writing these days is happening over at MasterWP.
How to Enqueue JavaScript for a Shortcode
One of the top questions I get is how to add JavaScript for your shortcode the right way without affecting pagespeed.
On Basecamp and Banned Speech
There’s a saying about being the president: if the problem landing on the president’s desk were easy to solve, it wouldn’t have made it to the president’s desk. In the new social landscape, we’re all the president of our own little social world. We’re all faced with way too many outrageous occasions that beg our […]
🔗 Mastering Advanced Custom Fields with WordPress Video
A quick walkthrough of our ACF process when building custom WordPress themes.
🔗 Up and Running with Understrap and WordPress Video
An intro video to a longer paid course on Understrap, the open source WordPress + Bootstrap theme framework.
How To Be Wrong
This morning one of my daughters was wrong. Shocking, I know, but it happens from time to time. Our girls have been learning some simple ASL (American Sign Language) through YouTube videos. Our four-year-old, Maeve, who can sing her ABCs but not identify most of the letters yet, has made it from A to C […]
Roosevelt on Parenting
From Morris’s Roosevelt biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, came this quote: …the highest idea of the family is attainable only where the father and mother stand to each other as lovers and friends. In these homes the children are bound to the father and mother by ties of love, respect, and obedience, which are […]
Quidditch as Self-Directed Sports Education
My daughter, who currently goes by the name Hermione Granger, has brought Harry Potter fandom to a fever pitch in our house. While reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to her, I was struck by how foreign many of the underlying concepts of quidditch at Hogwarts felt to me. If you haven’t engaged […]
On Watching Our Daughter Teach Herself to Read
One of the hardest mental hurdles in self-directed education is the idea that you don’t sit down with the purpose of teaching your kids to read– not unless they explicitly ask for it. You don’t require daily reading lessons, and you never ask the question, “Is my child reading at grade level yet?” Of course […]
Finding Yourself vs Creating Yourself
There’s a moment in Scorcese’s Bob Dylan docu-fantasy for Netflix, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, where Bob Dylan is asked about the idea of “finding yourself”. His answer, excerpted below, is probably the most insightful moment of the film, and if the film were an essay, would stand as its thesis statement. Life […]