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Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development

This is a presentation I gave at WordCamp Asheville 2014, meant to teach new developers to create WordPress plugins. It focuses on setting up a new plugin project, and exploring different WordPress hooks. Read More

Remove “Reply To:” from bbPress Reply Titles

bbPress prepends the string "Reply To:" to the beginning of a reply's topic title. This post shows how you can remove that prepended text using bbPress hooks. Read More

bbPress Recent Replies Shortcode

This shortcode provides a simple way to show a list of recent replies on your bbPress forum. It has some arguments for flexibility, and separates logic from display by providing a distinct template function. Read More

Custom Query Wrangler Field

A simple example for adding a custom Field to Query Wrangler as its own plugin. Read More

A Very Introduction to Drupal’s hook_form_alter()

Very basic example of a drupal module that works in both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7. Read More

Ajax Comment Pagination & Overriding Default Views as a Feature

This post describes generally how to create ajax paging comments, how to package the created comments into a feature, and how to override default views created by modules. Read More

How to modify a new Drupal 6 user programmatically

There are many things you may want to do to a new user on your Drupal website. You may want to apply a new role, require approval, or even programmatically create node with the new user as the author. Read More

Custom caching in your Drupal module

Recently I needed to implement caching for a custom Drupal module. I needed my module to cache exactly every 30 minutes on the hour and half-hour. Read More