Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Tag: WordPress

  • 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)

  • 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…

  • A Domain-Agnostic Social Network

    Ever since the guys at Diaspora raised 200k on Kickstarter I’ve had an itch I am trying to scratch. I wrote a little bit about this already but thought it would be good to flesh out the idea a bit more and put it out there for the sake of “the conversation.” As users of…

  • Why Automattic Doesn’t Need to Buy App.net

    … It looks like they have their own social API out there already. Several months ago I suggested that Automattic purchase Path. Sadly it turns out that it would probably be too expensive (see comments). But the idea behind the post is still oh so true. I still want to own my own content. I…

  • How to Debug WordPress

    I recently stumbled across this nifty gem in the WordPress Codex: Debugging in WordPress. Basically, php has ways to suppressing errors, and by default WordPress will do this for you as well. Why? Well, you don’t want everyone who stumbles onto your site to see all the errors your code is making. The problem is…

  • Why Automattic Should Buy Path

    (Alternate Title) How WordPress Can Fix Social I went to the breakout NYC PandoMonthly Event this by Pando Daily past week. It was a pleasure watching Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda), doing what she does best: interviewing one of my heroes Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) all about WordPress, how he got started, the future of WP, social networks…

  • Responsive Design – WordPress NYC

    In case you missed it, there _were _60 people on the waiting list… Here’s the talk I gave at WPNYC in April about Responsive Web Design. I spliced out my piece from the full video, but if you’d like what you see here, Sonja did a great job canvasing the Responsive Design conversation. My talk…

  • Beautiful WordPress 3.3 Site in Under 30 Minutes

    Edit Now it has a custom theme… Ilana C. Myer My wife needed a professional site. What were we to do? WordPress! arom conception to reality it took 30 minutes. I didn’t design the site from scratch. There are thousands of beautiful free themes out there. WordPress.org has a great way to filter through themes…

  • Announcing: The Redesign – Part One

    Edit: So, since this went up I got a full-time job… My plans are now to clean up the blog design and focus on side project that will benefit the community. At some point I may return to the long-sideways scroll page… But for now it won’t be my focus. I’ve been working on a…

  • Why Use WordPress? The Long Reason

    WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System). In the late 90’s, when I first began building websites, you used to have to create a separate page for every page on your site. One would think that that follows a certain logic. But if you consider this further there are many elements on each page that repeat themselves…