How To - Half-Elf on Tech

19 July, 201226 July, 2012How To

No Children Necessary

I use surprisingly few child themes these days, because most of what I want to do can be done in widgets, css, or a mu-plugin.

12 July, 2012How To

Scorched Earth Security

Burn the land and boil the sea. You can’t reinfect me.

9 July, 201214 July, 2012How It Is, How To

Art History of Plugins

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884

How an art history lesson will help you be a better judge of what plugins are safe(r) to install on your WordPress site.

5 July, 20125 August, 2015How It Is, How To

Plugin Licenses, Upsells, and Add-ons

If you can’t obfuscate your code, or have an API just to check a license, how are you supposed to earn any money with a plugin in the WordPress repository? Stop thinking about hiding your code and start extending it.

20 June, 2012How To

The Anarchy of .htaccess and Multiple Domains

Redirecting URLs with .htaccess is easy, right up until you start tossing subdomains and mapped domains into the mix.

10 June, 2012How To

ZenPhoto and ColorBox

A weekend spent sorting out ColorBox and how to bring a gallery into the 2010s.