Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Introducing Assets Manager for WordPress

Note: if the links aren’t working properly, resave the pretty permalinks settings. Download Many of the companies which my current place of employment interacts with have a higher level of security on their firewall (they also tend to use IE7, such is life). Because of this we were having issues sharing files with our constituents…

January 12, 2014
Code Is Poetry

At the bottom of every page of wordpress.org is the above statement, and it’s not just an empty phrase. I learned what I know from digging into WordPress. It started by my breaking the site I was supposed to be managing, sorry Karin. Many books, themes, plugins and years later I seem to be able…

December 7, 2013
How WordPress Works: Dissecting the Database

There is beauty in the simplicity of WordPress’ database structure. All the functionality of posts, pages, custom posts, taxonomy, users and core settings are here. In 11 tables. For comparison, the almighty Drupal has 72 tables, Joomla has 68. All posts, pages and custom posts are saved in the wp_posts table. They are differentiated by…

December 1, 2013
I May Be Ridiculously Good Looking, But It’s My Choice If I Want To Be Seen Naked

Walking down the street, no matter how ridiculously hot you are, you can expect that you can keep on the clothing you choose to wear. Even if every passer by wants to see you naked. You may choose to wear long sleeves or a tank top. That is your choice. If you go to a…

July 26, 2013
Why Technology Killing Jobs is a Good Thing

technological progress is eliminating the need for many types of jobs and leaving the typical worker worse off than before – Brynjolfsson and McAfee This is scary for a lot of people. Forget having to compete with cheap labor, how do you compete with a machine? The problem is that fighting technological advances goes against…

June 13, 2013
How to Write a CSV Directly to PHP://Output I/O Buffer With fputcsv()

Came across this gem half-way down the function page for fputcsv() on php.net Use an associative array for this so your keys will be the csv headers. Enjoy!

May 24, 2013
Turning Tricks: Using Action and Filter Hooks in WordPress

I spoke at the fantastic WordPress NYC Meetup tonight on the topic of Hooks in WordPress. The video should be up shortly, but here are my slides. (download links below)

May 22, 2013
How to Use AJAX in WordPress Development. The Quick-and-Dirty QuickStart Guide

Edit: Enjoyed this? Check out my new post on AJAX using JSONP in WordPress. There are some great posts and a fantastic wiki page explaining how to use AJAX in WordPress. But I haven’t found a quick plug-and-play tutorial. So here goes… The problem: A simple form that will give the visitor an input and…

March 24, 2013
WordPress postmeta is useful, but be careful

The add_post_meta(), delete_post_meta(), update_post_meta(), and get_post_meta() functions are really useful. It’s the perfect place to store information about a post. Many plugins take advantage of this storage for determining whether a specific post/page needs the feature they are providing or not. Example: I recently installed on a site I manage the WordPress HTTPS plugin; it…

February 3, 2013
No Thanks to Parallels… VMWare Rocks!

Being an Apple fanboy (at least for now) my main devices tend to be Apple. But as a Front-end Developer I still need to test my sites in Internet Explorer. I found that, truly, the best way is in Virtual Machines. Simulators just can’t capture the authentic buggy experience of true cross browser testing. To…

January 27, 2013