Over the past several months I have been working hard on a new plugin for WordPress and now I am pleased to unveil the initial release. Updraft is a backup and restore plugin for WordPress. It can do scheduled or one time backups of your plugins, themes, uploads, and DB itself. These backups can be [...]

WP 2.9 is out. The upgrade went quite smoothly here, but be sure you upgrade your plugins before running the core upgrade! Fidgetr and CDN Tools are both 2.9 compatible already, so if you have the latest versions you’re set.

One of the big problems I’ve run into as a WordPress plugin developer is the diversity of PHP installations. Simply stating you only support PHP5 and greater is insufficient to ensure compatibility. Things you may take for granted in your development environment may be missing or worse, partially functional. I’ve decided to document a few [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time on CDN Tools and Fidgetr in the past few weeks and this has cut back on the time I had planned to use to write blog entries. I’ll try to get a few new articles up soon, but in the mean time here is a status update on [...]

For the past few weeks I have been working on a small coding project and today I am proud to announce its first public release! Fidgetr is a WordPress widget that displays the latest photos from your Flickr photostream in an attractive manner.  It features support for its own themes along with very simple setup and [...]