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I forked a color picker for WordPress I know what you're thinking. _Isn 't there a color picker in WordPress already? _ Yeah … ? Not another color picker?!?! Why a color picker for WordPress? Technically, the hue.js…
Read ArticleSet Featured Images Programmatically in WordPress
Recently, I found myself needing to auto-set 300+ featured images for a customers WooCommerce store. After the initial panic phased itself out, I took a couple of deep breathes and realized I've done a few kinda-sorta…
Read ArticleWP Dispensary: 2 years after the launch
Over the last two years, the WP Dispensary WordPress plugin has changed my entire life. In these last two years, WP Dispensary** has gone from being just a "thing" I built to a thing that powers hundreds of websites for…
Read ArticleDispensary Details for WooCommerce
I recently built and released a new plugin on WP Dispensary that works 100% without WP Dispensary . "But didn't you just jump in full time to build WP Dispensary? Why create something that doesn't work with it?" I know,…
Read Article7 days full time at WP Dispensary
There's now been 7 days in the books for me working full time on WP Dispensary and I want to take a little bit of time to talk about what I've been up to. What's been done I made it a point to put some solid hours in…
Read ArticleGoing all in with WP Dispensary
If not now, then when? Today is the day I start working full time on my own product! 90 days until Christmas 🙌 What are you doing to make the most of the time left? I'm going full time at @WPDispensary starting today…
Read ArticleEnhance the power of your WordPress Custom Post Types
I've been working on extending the WP Dispensary plugin and wanted to share some of the ways I've found to help boost the power of the Custom Post Types you create. Custom Post Types are a great building block for…
Read ArticleMy Brothers Keeper
Creativity comes in many forms. Today, I would like to display another form of creative expression I have been interested in with a Sons of Anarchy fanfiction story. I've wrote fiction for as long as I can remember, and…
Read ArticleDocuPress: documentation simplified.
DocuPress is a documentation plugin for WordPress that lets you, you guessed it , add documentation directly from your website's WordPress dashboard. This is the 6th free plugin I've released in the WordPress plugin…
Read ArticleTop Dispensary WordPress Plugins
Notice: This post has been updated for 2018. Within the last few months we've seen medical and recreational marijuana laws pass in 8 out of 9 states. This means there is going to be an influx of websites being built for…
Read ArticleHello 2017
This isn't your average "2017 Goals" article with a list of bullshit and nonsense that I know damn well gets forgotten within the first couple of weeks into January. There's no exhaustive list of totally awesome shit I…
Read ArticleOrganized Chaos
Life is chaotic, and beyond death nothing is ever guaranteed to you. While your goal should never change to fit your current life situation, the path you take to achieve it may have to for reasons far beyond your…
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