This is a quickie, but is dedicated to any budding WordPress theme and plugin developers who are just getting familiar with PHP.
If you make a call to a plugin function like, oh say, <?php wp_beta_test(); ?>, and that plugin is not currently activated in the WP backend, nothing below that line of code [...]

Amidst the chaos that will be next week as I try to attend every event at WWDC, I’m also going to be working on some personal development projects as it will be my first “vacation time” since January.
I try to simulate diverse environments in my dev area, but I know that there are some unpredictables [...]

Apart from a brief outing on Saturday with Glen and Wendy, I managed to get a lot of work done. On Friday I completed the environment for my twitter experiment, as noted with the CakePHP install post, on Saturday I logged several hours into studying twitter’s API and Cake’s “bakery,” and Sunday I ran [...]

My introduction to CSS, PHP and pseudo-CMS options via WordPress came entirely by chance. I had experimented with Joomla (then Mambo) in the past, but as a whole, it was simply too feature-ridden for a new-comer such as myself.
It became obvious quite quickly that I needed a publishing platform that:

installed quickly and [...]

Over the past 3 years, I’ve become VERY well versed in the ways of WordPress. I’m not embarassed to admit that when I first began, I was heavily dependent on hacking up existing themes like Kubrick (Hell, this is how I learned about the great Michael Heileman), and I couldn’t make heads or tails [...]

So I finally did it. I broke my website.
Details later, but know this: it corrupted my database. I had actually made a backup of the DB using Wordpress’s suggested plugin and emailed it to myself. Feeling confident, I logged in to recreate the site only to find that the only information [...]