Kirby Junior child theme I’ve stuck with the same design for just over a year here on this blog, which is the longest I’ve ever kept a single design. And, to be honest, I haven’t been too motivated in updating it. But, that all changed when I saw the first version of Ian Stewart’s Kirby theme... Read More »

One of my favorite plugins has always been Widget Logic , which allows you to display/hide widgets based on context. The biggest limitation of that plugin to me is that I had to go to my Widgets screen in my WordPress admin every time I wanted to add a new widget for a single post or page. What I wanted was... Read More »

H ave you ever used a WordPress theme with more than a couple of widget areas? More specifically, have you ever used a WordPress theme with loads of widget areas and no idea how they all worked within the theme? If you’ve ever used a theme of mine, you know I love adding widget areas everywhere. And, I know this... Read More »

A common thing we do in the WordPress community within our themes and plugins is provide backwards compatibility with older versions of WordPress. This usually seems like a smart idea. We want the largest possible audience, right? The problem with providing backwards compatibility is twofold: Users continue... Read More »

I can probably list a million reasons I think my recent Members plugin is neat. Not only have I deployed it on about five of my own blogs in the last few days, I’ve also started integrating it with some of my other plugins and themes. One of the features I feel that’s lacking in most plugins and... Read More »