Cameron Jones
There has been a concerted effort to promote WordPress’ “Five For The Future” initiative in recent times. According to WordPress.org: Five for the Future encourages organizations to contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development. Lately however, it’s been less “encouraging” and more “demanding” and slander campaigns against those who don’t hit that mark….
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Cameron Jones
As highlighted by Joost de Valk and WP Tavern, WordPress’ market share has first stagnated and now fallen since the start of the year. Considering how long WordPress has enjoyed consistent growth, some people will be rightly surprised and/or concerned about what that means for WordPress. Here’s my hot take on why it shouldn’t be…
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Cameron Jones
PHP’s var_dump is one of the most handy functions around, allowing you to see any sort of data in a practically human readable format. If you’re like me and do a lot of work with external APIs, it’s indispensable when it comes to figuring out the type of data your responses are. Unfortunately if you…
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Cameron Jones
Most WordPress templating functions are available in two formats, one to echo and one to return. These are normally in the form of the_xxx() to display, and get_the_xxx() to return. Some examples of this are: Post title: the_title() and get_the_title() Post thumbnail: the_post_thumbnail() and get_the_post_thumbnail() Aside from differing in returning or displaying the response, the…
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Cameron Jones
Speaking Engagements, WordPress
Following the successful event in January, WordFest Live is happening again on July 23. To make that news even better, I’ll be speaking at this event as well. At the last edition I presented “WordPress Sucks!“, a breakdown of some of the issues WordPress has both as software and in the community and ecosystem, which…
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Cameron Jones
If you’re like me, you woke up today to the news that LastPass will be crippling their free tier by limiting it’s use to just one type of device. If you’re also like me, the first you heard about it was discussions on social media and not from the company itself. While this has only…
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Speaking Engagements, WordPress
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at WordFest Live on January 21st, 2021. Having not been to a WordCamp for over a year due to COVID-19, I’m super excited to be back speaking on stage again, even if it is only virtually. WordFest Live is a continuous 24 hour event with speakers presenting…
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Cameron Jones
Developer Tutorials, WooCommerce, WordPress
Out of the box, WordPress includes a default category for posts called “Uncategorized”. It not only looks unprofessional, it’s largely unnecessary. While you can rename it to something more suitable, I tend to use “General”, you can’t delete it. At least, not without a bit of code. The first thing we’ll want to do is…
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Cameron Jones
Speaking Engagements, Website Design & Development, WordPress
I recently had a lovely chat with Nathan Wrigley from WP Builds about one of my recent projects WP Theme Components. WP Theme Components was born out of the repetition of needing to copy the same functions between multiple sites. It was becoming increasingly difficult to remember which project had the most best version and…
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