Jorge Pedret

This is a trick that I usually use when I need to clone an existing WordPress installation in my local computer.

Great WordPress theme for creating a pattern library

While traveling in Venezuela, I was helping a friend setup his first WordPress site. He loved every single part of it, except that it was all in English and he wanted to see it in Spanish. Que problem-o.

Using a different language for WordPress’ admin, was something I’ve always wanted to learn, so I started looking around and I couldn’t believe how easy it was…

Surprisingly GravityForms hasn’t implemented the placeholder feature yet. I know they have plans on doing so soon, but we need a solution while we wait for that. I came up with this quick solution using only GF filters and jQuery. Check it out!

Quick post to show how to retrieve pages by certain custom template. Example of use List all the published pages that use the template “page-quote.php”: How does it work? The template assigned to the page is stored as a meta data by the key ‘_wp_page_template’. Using the get_pages() WordPress function, we can ask for the [...]

This is a quick post on how to resize images from WordPress media library after they’ve been uploaded. What’s the current problem? Once you’ve uploaded images to the media library, it’s impossible to resize them to the new sizes that you’ve added using add_image_size() function. How does AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild solves the problem? Although the [...]

Slides from Ray Villalobos for “HTML5 & CSS3 Wordpress Integration”, presented in “WordCamp: Developers” on May 5th, 2011. Contact Ray Villalobos: @planetoftheweb, http://planetoftheweb.com/

Mark Reale & John Oswald gave a very creative and funny presentation, describing a very interesting cutting-edge project they worked on. Although, I wasn’t a big fan of the website, I admire the work and thought that was put into it and its development. It was also an excellent learning experience to see the workflow [...]

Allen Pike packed JavaScript in a 20 minute talk, describing the similarities and differences with other programming languages. Javascript is the most widely deployed language ion the world. People are creating more apps in JavaScript than before because: Computers are faster All the raising JavaScript libraries that standardize and make JS a lot cooler JavaScript and [...]

Justin talked about the main three plugins for WordPress e-commerce: Cart66 Shopp WordPress Ecommerce Shopp http://shopplugin.net/ Pros Very solid plugin, backed up by strong businesses 7 cool widgets Payment gateways integration, you can download additional ones for a small fee Good support for inventory & stock alert Complete shipping modules Supports product variations Promotions Shortcodes for products, categories, etc. [...]

Cameron advises agains adding pluggins for everything, why? Take ownership of your code, know what your site is really doing Build your own library of code and techniques for future projects “Make WordPress fo crazy things nobody else has thought of yet” — Sometimes there isn’t a plugin that does exactly what you want. Makes [...]

There are two types of clients: By the number people Gut reaction people Approaching by-the-number clients Calculate how much money their wasting by calculating the inefficiency of the current system. How much time employees loose because of  poor navigation and lack of design standards. Tools for geting quantitative data: Usability Testing — Test your site with 5 [...]

Randy Jensen’s icon collection for Wordpress Custom Post Types, it really helps your backend look a lot more professional. Click on the link to download them and see how it works. Thanks @thoronas & @mor10 for the link!

While I was writing the last post, I was trying to find a nice code highlighter with this requirements: Keep Indentation: I want to code to look nice, but if it’s not indented correctly as I submit it, then it’s garbage Support Different Languages: I’m going to be writing post about Javascript, PHP, XHTML and [...]