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.
📬 Newsletter
Every week or so I collect a few links from the WordPress and webdev ecosystem- along with my latest blog posts- and send it to your inbox.
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🎙️ Podcast
A weekly conversation around tech, web development, and WordPress with me and cohost Aurooba Ahmed.
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✏️ All the Latest Posts
🔗 WP-Tonic – June 3, 2022 Podcast Appearance
On June 3, I was the special guest on the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Round-table Show where they discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. We talked about the ACF Acquisition, Elon Musk, Full Site Editing, and more.
🔗 Post Status Comments “What If There Was a WordPress Lite?” – May 24, 2022 Podcast Appearance
I joined a Twitter Spaces (soon to be podcast) episode discussing the idea of “WordPress Lite” with a number of much more esteemed guests, including Bob Dunn, Jess Frick, and Eric Karkovack.
Starting today, would I develop for Shopify or WordPress?
Should new developers jump on the Shopify bandwagon or join the WordPress community? Here’s what I’d do if I started fresh.
On Lord of the Rings and Culture
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.
VSCode Snippet for using jQuery in WordPress
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.
Why I don’t build websites for equity or ownership
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.
Testing Full Site Editing and Twenty Twenty Two
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.
Neil, Joe, and Daniel – Thoughts on the Spotify Podcast Ecosystem
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.
Staying Socialized
One of the common concerns of homeschooling we often hear is that kids need to be socialized. But socialization is public schools is only one specific type of socialization.
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.