How to Save Wistia Video Player Speed in Local Storage with JavaScript, the Wistia API (and WordPress)

I love Wistia, the professional video hosting company with amazing stats. I have used them since early on and host all the JavaScript for WordPress videos with them. They have had an API for a while that lets you control player speed. Recently, they updated their player and added speed control right into the controls. However, there is no caching mechanism for … Continue reading How to Save Wistia Video Player Speed in Local Storage with JavaScript, the Wistia API (and WordPress) →

Trailer for New Treehouse Course: How to Build Websites with WordPress

I'm excited to announce the release of our latest Treehouse WordPress course: How to Make Websites with WordPress. We cover all the basics you need to get up and running with WordPress: How to Install WordPress Working with WordPress Themes Customizing WordPress Themes Working with Custom Post Types and Fields Adding Widget Areas Adding Custom … Continue reading Trailer for New Treehouse Course: How to Build Websites with WordPress →

Learn WP from Static HTML to Custom Theme

Rock on to the folks at WP Tuts for staying up to date on publishing WordPress theme tutorials! Here is the latest in their series: Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Preparing the Markup Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Creating Template Files Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme … Continue reading Learn WP from Static HTML to Custom Theme →

Great Template Code for a WordPress Widget Plugin

Big thanks to Pippin from Pippin's Plugins for having the best code at the top of the search engines when I was looking for a WordPress widget template just like this. Thanks man!

How to Build a WordPress Plugin WordPress.tv Video

I enjoyed this talk from Eric Mann on building a WordPress plugin

Great Intro to WordPress Multisite Video from Jeremy Pry

Thank to Jeremy for this great introduction to WordPress Multisite (from WordPress.tv) http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.03

WP Tuts Tutorial on Overriding WP-Cron

In working on a Treehouse Badges and Profile Plugin I needed to run a cron job to regularly check a user's profile for updates. Thanks to WP Tuts and Harish Chouhan for this helpful tutorial on WP-Cron.