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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

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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Custom Site Suspended Page in WordPress MultiSite
September 1, 2015April 4, 2026

Here is another small plugin, WP Site Suspended. It is simply a simple way to alter the appearance and message that WordPress shows if you archive a site in MultiSite.

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BrowsingBetter Overhaul
August 12, 2012May 2, 2015

Note: This project is no more, never gained any traction. Oh well! Code remains on Github…just in case. A couple years ago I launched a project site called browsingbetter.com, as my own little “try to help the web” idea. After a long while overdue, the site has received a massive overhaul. Designer friend Josh Cagwin…

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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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jQuery Conference Trip – My Overview
October 21, 2010May 2, 2015

So this last weekend I flew to Boston for the jQuery Conference. Quite a big deal for me being one who does not like to break routine and oh yeah, had not flown in sixteen years. Traveling sucked, but thankfully the conference was awesome. Let me tell you why, and why you should attend one…

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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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