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 [...]

Having realized that I haven’t looked at WordPress theme development in nearly a year, I decided to search around and ended up switching over to Mystique. The theme offers a wealth of features and even obsoletes some plugins and widgets I was previously using. I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it long-term but it’s [...]

Around a year ago I finally decided to start a blog. Since then I’ve changed the domain, name, written over 60 posts about various things, and released two WordPress plugins. I had no defined goals when I started…and I still don’t! So in the spirit of my random posting, here are some stats about traffic [...]

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 [...]