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ACF PRO and the Great Backward Compatibility Debate

July 22, 2014

The developer release of Advanced Custom Fields PRO two weeks ago caused quite a stir in the WordPress community. It sparked a debate about backward compatibility, business models, and developer entitlement with free plugins. However, for me this debate actually highlighted wider issues around WordPress site development and perhaps more importantly the community. So in […]

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Welcome WP App Store

April 29, 2014

I am excited to announce the acquisition of WP App Store from Brad Touesnard. WP App Store is an exclusive deal site and mailing list for WordPress plugins, themes and products, allowing you to get great deals in your inbox every two weeks. This is the second incarnation of WP App Store which started out […]

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Will WordPress be a Plugin Business Killer?

April 20, 2014

WordPress core development has recently adopted a features-as-plugins model for incorporating large changes into major releases. This has come about largely in response to the WordPress 3.6 release, which saw its Post Format UI changes backed out late in the day. As a plugin developer wanting to keep up with changes that might affect my […]

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Developing for Ninja Forms

April 13, 2014

Last year I attended, and was a micro sponsor of, my first WordCamp – WordCamp London 2013. I expected to sit and listen to some great talks, but not really knowing anyone there I didn’t anticipate to chat to many people. Halfway through the morning I sat next to Kevin, a developer living in Liverpool, […]

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Building Useful WordPress Plugins

March 8, 2014

Although I have built many WordPress plugins in the last few years, the plugins that are popular, continually developed and endure are those that prove useful to me personally and for my professional development. Pippin Williamson is a plugin author extraordinaire and has written about the subject of plugins that scratch an itch, where he […]

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Announcing Cartogram, a Google Maps WordPress Plugin

February 25, 2013

This plugin allows you to create unlimited Google Maps that you can place in your posts, pages or theme template files using a shortcode. You can then customise a map by adding unlimited locations to the map. Map Features Complete control of the map position by using an address, adding a marker or entering a […]

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Announcing Chronos, the ultimate WordPress Plugin to Manage TimelineJS

January 24, 2013

To we released our new premium WordPress plugin Chronos on CodeCanyon. Chronos is the ultimate WordPress plugin to create and manage awesome timelines using the JavaScript plugin TimelineJS. You can have a try of the plugin at our demonstration site here.

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Announcing Plugin Demo, the Easiest way to Demonstrate your Premium Plugins

January 17, 2013

We have just released a new plugin which allows you to turn a WordPress site into a demonstration site for a plugin you have created. Check it out!

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Announcing Intagrate – Post your Instagram images to WordPress

June 6, 2012

After months of supporting and developing the free plugin Intagrate Lite (formerly Instagrate to WordPress) it became too much work and too time consuming to add all of the requested features and new additions. So in order to maintain the support and development of the plugin I have released a paid version called Intagrate (formerly […]

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Sniffing the WordPress Plugin API

March 17, 2012

During some recent troubleshooting of WordPress events being called in the plugin Instagrate to WordPress for a bug fix release, I came across a useful plugin on the WordPress repository built especially for plugin developers by Jeff Sayre – WordPress Hook Sniffer. Sniffer what? Like a network packet analyser (or sniffer), the WordPress Hook Sniffer […]

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