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A WordPress Client Dashboard
Just to be clear right up front, this is not an article about customizing the back-end dashboard that WordPress provides to system administrators. This is an article that captures my journey in creating a WordPress client dashboard to show various kinds of statistical progress to PeakZebra clients. These folks don’t care how many page views…
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A Book Table of Contents in an eBook World
If you publish a long-form content piece on the web, you really owe it to your readers to provide navigational help. That seems obvious, but most things online that call themselves books (just one way of singling out long-form material) don’t go very far out of their way. If there’s any plain-old book table of…
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Blockchain in WordPress in 2022
If you land in certain corners of the Twittersphere, you’ll find yourself surrounded by people who are wildly enthusiastic believers in the power of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to change the relationship between creators and consumers. By extension, they are at least a little enthusiastic about cryptocurrency as a means to an end, though they are…
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Theft Revisited: What Gatsby JS Should Steal from WordPress in 2022
A long, long year ago, it seemed prudent to bring up a few things that worked well in WordPress that were missing in Gatsbyjs. For instance, one-click exchangeable Gatsby js themes. Some, but not many, of those holes have been filled in various ways, but others remain (and probably will remain). But time has pushed…
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The WordPress Developer in 2021
I suspect that being a WordPress developer isn’t especially fashionable these days. You’re not a rat fink or a fool if you’re a WP developer, but you’re not the it kid. At least not in the developer crowd. WordPress has just been around too long to be the thing. That said, developing software in the…
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Future URL
One thing I always wished I’d had in my last “real” job (as an editorial director) was a way to link from web content I was currently writing to content I knew we were creating in the near future. A future URL. Of course, I could have just written in the links, but they’d by…
