A presentation made March 13th, 2013 to the Montana WordPress group in Bozeman, MT. WordPress Security 101 from Manifest Creative
Simple Filters Make Using Custom Post Types Easier
I’m always looking for good ways to make the WordPress UI as intuitive as possible for Manifest Creative clients. You’d be amazed at how many folks get frustrated trying to remember “What field does what?”. There’s naturally a bit of disconnect between filling out information in the admin and how it’s displayed on the front-end [...]
Piano Guys Cover Lord of the Rings
It’s no secret that I’m a huge LOTR nerd. I came across this in my inbox this morning and had to share.
Awesome tools built on WordPress
I’ll continue to update this post as I find other “best-of-breed” or useful apps that I find for working with WordPress. Today I found two cool tools that I thought were worth mentioning… The first is an awesome WordPress theme by the folk over at SimpleBits (yep, Dan Cedarholm is the co-founder of Dribbble). It’s [...]
Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy
A great interview with comedian Louis CK who points out that the more amazing things become, the more that people begin to expect them.
Who is Philip Downer?
Well by now it should be obvious that I’m a website developer. Here’s the in-depth, not quite a resume look. About Me I’ve been developing websites in various capacities for 16 years. I founded Manifest Creative (a sole proprietorship) in 2005. My areas of strength are: WordPress PHP/MySQL HTML5/CSS3 jQuery/JavaScript Authorize.net integration I’m also a [...]
Reinventing the Chamber of Commerce
Here’s a great article by Hunter Walk that discusses how your Chamber of Commerce could step up it’s act to ensure it’s meeting the actual needs of it’s small business members. A worthy read!
WordPress plugin to fetch river conditions from USGS
I’ve authored and created another WordPress plugin! This time it’s mainly geared at fishing guides and river outfitters. You can see this plugin in action on the Tightline Adventures website and at FishTales Outfitting. Synopsis This is a WordPress plugin that fetched streamflow and river data from the USGS. It’s intended use is for river [...]
Script to make WordPress site migrations easier
I’ve cleaned up and release the script that I use to migrate my WordPress sites between my local development server and a live web server. It’s hosted up on GitHub if you care to grab a copy or fork it to make your own improvements. There have been several attempts by others (many of which [...]
Faith and new media
We’re called the YouTube generation. Each of us are socially networked. But what will we do with the massive communications power that is the Internet? Every now and again I’m encouraged that some of those among us are producing powerful, authentic stories full of personal testimony. Sometimes I wish I could be so brave. But [...]
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