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Backdrop CMS

This weekend I had some extra time on my hands and decided to checkout Backdrop CMS. Then I wrote a long post about it... sort of Read More

WordPress Widget vs Drupal 8 Block

With the new Drupal 8 Blocks API, WordPress and Drupal are now more similar than not when it comes to Widgets vs Blocks. This post shows examples of each and highlights their similarities and differences. Read More

Guide to Drupal 8 Theme Development

Originally planned as an introduction to Drupal 8 theme development with Twig, this quickly became a very in-depth guide to many important aspects for building a complete theme. Read More

Custom Drupal 7 Rules Conditions and Actions

Some example Drupal Rules hooks providing conditions and actions. Read More

WordPress Rewrite API Examples

The WordPress Rewrite API can certainly be confusing. This post will look at how rewrites work in general, and provide multiple practical examples (and one very impractical example) of it in action. Read More

Sweet Widget Admin UI

In my continued attempt at making very simple plugins which greatly improve WordPress widgets, this plugin improves the widget editing experience by providing a larger widget editing area. Read More

Simple PHP Template Class

As a follow up to my earlier post, I wanted to show how to greatly improve the usefulness of the function by changing it to a class with distinct methods, and in the process reduce the previous approach's shortcomings. Read More

How to copy a live WordPress site to a local VVV machine

VVV is one of the best environments for WordPress development, but it only comes with a few sites by default. This post will guide you through creating a new local development site on VVV, and (optionally) importing a live site for local development. Read More

Sweet Widget Templates for WordPress

The way WordPress handles the HTML for widgets is clunky, inflexible, and basically wrong. This plugin solves the problem by providing true templates for widgets within your WordPress theme. Read More

Drupal 7 Themeing Notes

An ongoing list of notes, hints, tips and tricks for Drupal 7 themes and modules. hook_theme(), hook_preprocess_hook(), Drupal render arrays, and many more resources and technical details. Read More

How to Create a Simple PHP Templating Function

Sometimes you find yourself needing to write a very simple php template function. Maybe you're working on a very simple script, or in a CMS that doesn't provide much in the way of template organization or overriding. Read More

How To Disable The WordPress Login Form

There are plenty of reasons you may need to hide the standard WordPress login form. This post shows how to remove the login form from the page completely, while still providing a simple mechanism for accessing the form when needed. Read More

Allow Image HTML tags in WordPress Comments

How to allow your users to place HTML img tags into WordPress comments by hooking into the wp_kses_allowed_html filter. Additionally, this same method can be used to allow other HTML tags into comments. Read More

Simple Read-Only JSON API in WordPress

Class for WordPress that provides a simple JSON api for consumption. Read More

Database interactions with WP_Query and $wpdb

Presentation I gave at WordCamp Asheville in 2015. In which I provide an overview of two different PHP classes for querying the WordPress database: $wpdb for custom queries, and WP_Query() for getting lists of posts. Read More