The political business is rife with sayings of conventional wisdom that are either thought-provoking, like “Praise in public and criticize in private”, or darkly funny, like “If you want a friend, get a dog”, or both. A whole dictionary of sayings about leadership is also in wide circulation, like “If you are one step...
WordPress plugin puts custom fields on the page as JavaScript
I’m working on a WordPress site for a client who is interested in tracking and providing links to local government, demographic and economic data from outside sources. I want to show it as bits of data as JavaScript instead of on a usual WordPress post. Why, you ask? I’ll get into that more in...
In AppPresser, bad things happen when updating jQuery in WordPress
With AppPresser, jQuery needs to be the version that WordPress ships. Do not remove it! You’ve been warned. I am one of those airplane travelers who likes to sit by the window and strain my neck as I spend every airborne minute staring across the skies to the ground below. While some people quake...
A Primer on Child Themes: Making a child theme for So There’s That
It is so easy to install a WordPress theme for yourself – or better yet, your client’s great new portal. Surely you will do some customizations, match the colors to the client’s brand. Maybe you’ll add content or even write blog posts once a week from here to eternity. Then you sit back and enjoy. Right?...
Community Matters at WordCamp
Things are always better when you do it in a team. That is, at least, the lesson that I have learned again and again, and again. Sure, someone could code a full website by themselves from start to finish. I have a few projects right now that I am building by myself, at least...