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Why you should drop the mobile plugin from your WordPress site.

Every day someone is asking me about responsive WordPress themes. There is a huge push towards mobile friendly everything which is good if done right. If you’re just starting to re-design your site, then I defiantly think that you should keep mobile in mind from the very beginning. That can be by picking a theme that is […]

Yea Drupal! Said no one ever.

It’s no secret that I’m a WordPress fan. I find it easy to use, easy to customize and the developer community is amazing. Now I know there are fans of all content management systems, but in the circles I run in, Drupal is the black sheep of the family. So we make fun of it. It’s all […]

Correct WordPress misspellings, or anything, in your writing automatically!

Did you know that the P in WordPress should always be uppercase? That capital P makes a difference. Same goes for ExpressionEngine (capital second E) and many other technologies or names. An easy way to fix this is to add in an auto correct rule in your OS or text expansion application to change the incorrect spelling the correct […]

Making Facebook application tabs mobile friendly. Kind of.

Facebook and mobile don’t go hand in hand when it comes to creating page tab applications. Facebook actually doesn’t show app tabs on mobile at all. Facebook does work with mobile when it comes to creating Facebook applications. To clarify: Page Tab Apps have URLs that look like this: https://www.facebook.com/pagename/app_0123456789 Facebook Apps have URLs that […]

How to get separate previous and next page/post links in WordPress.

I’ve been doing a lot of custom WordPress work lately and one thing that stuck me as odd was how confusing it was to get separate previous and next links for pages or posts. Turns out, it’s very simple. There’s actually only one piece of code. To get separate links, leave parts of the code […]

I’ve removed Facebook and Twitter from my phone.

In my quest to make my Android perform better I decided to try uninstalling both the official Facebook and Twitter apps from my phone. My Droid Incredible only has 412 MBs of memory with about 80 free MBs. I really don’t understand where it’s all going. Most of it goes to the system, I think, […]

Overnight Website Challenge Recap

The Overnight Website Challenge was a week ago and I still feel like I’m catching up on sleep. It was a long day, but short at the same time. A ton of work was completed and we built a sweet site for a great non-profit. It all kicked off at 9am as that’s when we […]

The Overnight Website Challenge is On!

Starting tomorrow morning (March 24th) I’m going to be competing in my first Overnight Website Challenge. It’ll be 24 hours straight of coding which ends with a great new site for a deserving non-profit. This is my first time doing the Overnight Website Challenge and I’m a bit nervous. I’m not exactly sure what I’ve […]

How to create a Facebook application or convert your old FBML Facebook pages.

So you want to create a Facebook application? Well the good news is it’s relatively simple. What I’m going to show you here is the very basics. I’m not going to go into APIs or anything like that. This is also how you go about converting your FBML tabs to Facebook iFames. Since Facebook is […]

I’ve been an official Nerd for a year now.

This past Tuesday marked my one year anniversary at The Nerdery. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year, and it’s also hard to believe how much I’ve learned. When I started I was a little nervous. It was my first time starting a new job in 6 years. I was excited though as it […]