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Developing WordPress Locally, a Smashing Magazine Post

Stoked to have this tutorial published on smashingmagazine! Hop on over and check out my walkthrough on developing WordPress in a local developer environment and deploying to a live server.

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Developing WordPress Locally

Gravity Forms Sass
August 12, 2014May 2, 2015

I do a lot of development with WordPress, and most every site needs forms in one way or another. Gravity Forms is my go-to, it is very easy to use and really powerful. The only issue I really have is the styling used is just bloated. Each page gets crowded with several style sheets and…

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How To Build a Joomla! Template
October 21, 2010May 2, 2015

My newest tutorial, and probably my most in depth one yet, has just been published on NetTuts! I have wanted to get an article there for a while now, and am thrilled I finally have. Please go check it out and leave a comment, there or here.

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How To Build A jQuery Plugin For Social Sites
February 22, 2010May 2, 2015

I have been wanting to make a jQuery plugin for a while, and recently got the opportunity to guest write a post at amberweinberg.com and thought a tutorial would be a great addition. So I had one stone, and two birds…You know what happened next right?

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How To Build Custom Homepage For WordPress
March 22, 2010May 2, 2015

I am super excited to post this teaser here today, because the whole post is published over on tutorial9.net!

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WordPress Feeds to Follow
September 13, 2014April 25, 2026

There is no shortage of information about WordPress to find on the web, a lot of it is great info while some of it may be suspect. Inspired by the curation of feeds that Paul Irish shares for frontend dev and the like, I wanted to begin putting together a quality source of feeds to…

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WordPress Development Up and Running with Vagrant
August 23, 2015April 25, 2026

There are a ton of great posts about Vagrant, this is meant to be a very quick tutorial on how I get up and running with it for WordPress development. Written from the viewpoint of a Mac, currently running Yosemite.

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