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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

22 Marketers Under 22: How They Got Started In Marketing

In this series, I will be showcasing the early careers of 22 marketers aged 22 and under (more or less).…

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

How and Why I Removed IE11 Support From Our Product

Developing a product from scratch takes a lot of compatibility code, code maintenance, cross-browser testing and user testing. Building a…

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

West Cork Dream Properties

I have recently finished the third iteration of West Cork’s estate agents and valuers site for Charles McCarthy. After almost…

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

The Journey to PHP 7

I have updated my free WordPress plugins to PHP 7 and removed support for anything lower than that. I decided…

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

About WordPress Forks, b2, b3 and Future Projects

A lightweight CMS, based on WordPress pre-5.0, with no bloated code, no external resources, no extra JavaScript libraries, no jQuery,…

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

ImagePress Development #10

A new version of ImagePress has been released! This time it’s a bugfix release and a performance update. I have…

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

eCards Development #2

Picked up the slack and updated my eCards plugin. It feels good. I removed all jQuery dependencies and all JS…

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Product Sans

What is Product Sans? The new Google logo and identity system was developed by creating a custom, geometric sans serif…

Sunday, September 30, 2018

How to Build an Awesome Pricing Table/Matrix Using HTML/CSS

Here’s a quick sample of an awesome pricing table/matrix I built a while ago for a service that’s no longer live.…

Friday, September 28, 2018

Do You Really Need Wordfence (Apache Edition)

Nope! What you need is an up-to-date WordPress, up-to-date plugins, the latest server software, a bit of common sense and a…

Friday, June 24, 2022

Cache & Compress Your WordPress Site Without a Plugin

WordPress caching and compression is mostly common sense. If you have a powerful caching solution on your server, and you…

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

How to Code an Assistance Request Plugin for WordPress

Internal, client-oriented plugins are mostly used by maintenance agencies. They supply a plugin to their clients, allowing them to submit…