Keyring 3.0
Well it’s been a while, but I’ve just pushed a 3.0 release of Keyring. Keyring is a generalized framework for WordPress which handles authentication with, and authenticated requests to remote services....
View ArticleKeyring 2.0 and Keyring Social Importers 2.0
Yesterday I released new versions of both Keyring and the Keyring Social Importers packages, containing a bunch of updates and new additions. If you’re already using them, you should have update...
View ArticleNew Year, New Theme
To ring in 2019, I’m changing this blog’s theme to Twenty Nineteen, the new default WordPress theme, designed and primarily created by my excellent colleague, Allan Cole (check out his music, published...
View ArticleLoosely Joined
I had to chuckle recently when I realized just how complex some of the systems in my life are, even if I rarely think about the details. Most nights, I weigh myself on a Withings wifi scale (an older...
View ArticleKeyring v1.9
I just released version 1.9 of the Keyring plugin for WordPress. This version includes a few pretty cool updates and additions, as described in the changelog: Added a Google Analytics Service...
View ArticleAt #chromedevsummit with @goldsounds. He’ll be speaking later about PWAs and...
At #chromedevsummit with @goldsounds. He’ll be speaking later about PWAs and #WordPress via #Jetpack
View ArticleChecked in at Galvanize Denver – Platte
Checked in at Galvanize Denver – Platte. Checking out some cool #graphql and #wordpress stuff with @jasonbahl
View ArticleThe Future of the Web
I recently spoke at a small conference we put on in Detroit. I talked about The Future of the Web, in the context of data ownership, and proprietary vs open platforms. It was the first time I’ve done a...
View ArticleImport posts from Jetpack/WordPress.com
I’ve just released version 1.8 of both Keyring, and the Keyring Social Importers. This version includes a new service file, and an accompanying importer, which allows you to import content from a...
View ArticleRecent Social Importer Updates
I’ve been trying to make small improvements to the Keyring Social Importers package (and People & Places) that I maintain, and have made a number of them over the last few weeks. Here are some...
View ArticleSocial Importer Upgrade
Today I pushed some updates to: People & Places Keyring Social Importers These updates make it so that the Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram importers are now dynamically identifying and indexing...
View ArticlePeople & Places
Over the years, I’ve been working on a system to aggregate data that I publish to other social networks/sites back into my control, on my own WordPress install. Thus far, that has resulted in the...
View ArticleAll New WordPress.com
Almost 2 years ago, I wrote about how the future of WordPress needed to be a REST-based API, with a JavaScript client on top of that. There were even public rumors that, gasp, we were thinking about...
View ArticleOne Less Plugin, Thanks Jetpack
As a developer, I’m a huge fan of “red changesets”; when you get to delete more code than you add. Less code means less maintenance, less potential for bugs, security problems, etc. Today I got to “red...
View Articleplugin-deploy.sh
plugin-deploy.sh A pair of scripts that make it easier to manage the development of a WordPress plugin in Github, and then periodically deploy to the WP.org plugin repo (SVN).
View ArticleSimple Search Operators
I’ve long wanted to be able to do some simple, operated-powered searches within WordPress (especially relevant in a project I’m working on at Automattic). After a conversation with Allen, where he...
View ArticleWordCamp Saratoga
Through some lucky scheduling, I was able to attend both LevelUp Con and WordCamp Saratoga in a single trip. I spoke at WordCamp about how to build a quick Backbone.js application which used WordPress...
View ArticleChecked in at Creative Density Coworking
Checked in at Creative Density Coworking. #WordPress Happy Hour with Arestad.
View ArticleWP Email Login Video
The folks over at 1wd liked my WP Email Login plugin for WordPress enough that they made this quick tutorial video for it:
View ArticleThe Future of WordPress: REST API + Javascript single-page app?
DISCLAIMER: These are my personal thoughts only, based on what I’m seeing around the web over the last few years. Working on o2 for the last few months, and spending more and more time in amongst the...
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