At Sprout Apps I wanted Sprout Invoices to be the only product that had a license, with all add-ons (or extensions) using that license to receive automatic updates (or validate against). This provides a lot of benefits, mainly: a better customer experience, and improved recurring sales. If you’re not with me, consider your customer’s point […]
I really have no idea why the default behavior for Photon is not serve images on a page served over SSL but the solution is rather simple. View the code on Gist.
I don’t understand why this is an issue. The “lock-in” is only perceived by the theme user, it’s not real, especially when the content is owned. Any theme could add a very basic option and method to convert post type names. The answer should be to build better tools to convert their prospective customers; to help those that […]
I have been releasing plugins and themes since the early days (~1.0) and I’ve been doing professional WordPress development for 6 years, but I only recently realized that I’ve become out of loop with the WP community. There’s so many new sub-groups: premium sellers, WP agencies and a ton of shops. Looking back (beyond 6 years ago) I fit into a few […]
For the last several years I’ve working hard, head down developing and supporting Smart eCart (formally GBS) . Recently I’ve moved away from working full-time on that project but found myself without a clear direction as to what was next. I contemplating getting back into full-time freelancing web development; for a stretch I was toying with getting a “real job” […]
My experience with contributing to WordPress core has been awful and after years of convincing myself it’s gotten better the results might be the same. Hopefully my feeling of discouragement changes because I really want to be involved.
Nacin just tweeted about a little changeset in WordPress trunk that will delete all transients after an upgrade. Wondering how controversial this will be… WordPress trunk will clear all transients during upgrade. http://t.co/6eGGO8lAXv — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) September 12, 2013 Obviously someone is going to make this “controversial”, there always is with a huge project […]
