I’m a WordPress developer, writer, and instructor. I’m the Technology Director at HDC. You’ll usually find me around MasterWP and the Understrap theme framework.
Here I share my latest writing, tech videos, podcast appearances, and scribbled-down thoughts on everything from WordPress and tech to just regular life stuff.
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✏️ All the Latest Posts
🔗 WP Builds: How might we fix the WordPress notifications problem? Podcast Appearance
I’ve been a Nathan Wrigley fan since my days as a big Beaver Builder user, so I was stoked to sit down with him. We recorded this a while back and mostly discussed the WP Feature Notifications project I’ve been working on for WordPress.
Sending an email in WordPress using your WooCommerce email design
Supposedly, this is what the wc_mail() function is supposed to do: help you send an email the way you might with wp_mail() BUT include your fancy WooCommerce template/design/styles around the content. Well, it didn’t seem to be working for us, so after breaking it apart, we took the core function and wrote what we think […]
Writing a tiny full site editing plugin
One of my largest issues with the full site editing user experience is the difficulty in transitioning from the backend to the frontend of your website. If you’re in the site editor, there’s no admin bar, no single click to get back to the front of your website. It requires multiple full-page reloads. I find […]
🔗 Press the Issue: Does Market Share Matter? Podcast Appearance
This was a fun chat with Rob about the whole “market share” and “WordPress economy” discussions going on.
🔗 WP-Tonic “This Week In WordPress & Tech” 8/12/22 Podcast Appearance
Last week I joined the WP-Tonic roundtable again to talk about WordPress stuff. Everyone on this episode is a smart WordPress player but we also went off the rails reacting to some of the recent events in WordPress.
Wow, That Really Blew Up
Last week I had a WordPress-related tweet sort of ‘blow up,’ although I mean that in really the most insignificant and self-deprecating way imaginable. Within the tiny WordPress bubble, my tweet gained enough traction to be repeatedly shared, referenced in industry newsletters and publications (including SearchEngineJournal?), and even earn me a minor wrist-slapping DM from […]
🔗 A Request for Feedback on The WP Minute Podcast Appearance
🔗 Press the Issue: The WordPress Mass Exodus Podcast Appearance
Conversation has been ramping up about who WordPress is for, and who it leaves out. Community members are speaking up about why they are choosing to abandon the CMS for other systems. In this episode, Brian Coords talks to Nyasha Green about how the WordPress market disparity is challenging, but not dismantling, user loyalty.
🔗 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS – June 16 Podcast Appearance
Jonathan Denwood and Brian Coords discuss WordPress, full site editing, and more in this wide-ranging interview.
🔗 The WP Minute – Where Will The WordPress Middle Class Go? Linked Post
WordPress has always been a good on-ramp solution for new developers…often meant the first step to a new career in web development.