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Hybrid Hook: WordPress Plugin
When I created the Hybrid theme framework, I wasn’t just simply creating a theme. I was adding another piece to my vision of how WordPress sites should function. The Hybrid Hook plugin is a part of...
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Hybrid Tabs: WordPress Plugin
Many of you have asked that I incorporate tabbed widgets into the Hybrid theme much like what exists in Options, Structure, and Visionary. I knew from the moment of building the theme that this was...
View ArticleBeta testing version 0.2 of the Hybrid Tabs widget
After months of testing and user-contributed feedback, I’ve finally decided how to handle the Hybrid Tabs widget. There are some changes that should make it easy for developers to create custom tabs...
View ArticleHybrid Hook Widgets: WordPress Plugin
When I originally released the Hybrid Hook plugin in December, I wanted to give users the ability to easily add content to their site using Hybrid’s extensive action hook system. This plugin has served...
View ArticleHybrid Tabs release: Version 0.2
After some final testing and an agonizingly long wait for WordPress 2.8, it’s finally time to officially release the Hybrid Tabs widget to the public. I understand that version 0.1 was never officially...
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Hybrid Hook 0.2 makes customizing your site even easier
In December, I released the first version of the Hybrid Hook plugin. It was a pretty cool plugin, but it was lacking a lot of finesse. After months of user feedback and seeing how everyone was using...
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Whistles WordPress Plugin
Let’s hop in our time machine and go back to January 2009. Theme Hybrid was half a year into the WordPress theme game. Hybrid was quickly becoming one of the most popular themes in the WordPress...
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Restaurant WordPress plugin
A little backstory on this plugin: Way back when I helped launch a project named DevPress, the team had envisioned creating an awesome restaurant theme. Of course, this meant creating a companion...
View ArticleRegistration Honeypot WordPress Plugin
A few times over the years, I’ve helped a few people out of user registration spam issues. There are existing WordPress plugins for handling this, but most folks wanted something simple that they...
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Entry Views WordPress Plugin
A few years ago, I wrote a simple PHP script for counting post views. It was originally created to use alongside one of the themes I was involved in creating. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of...
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Members plugin beta testing
In 2009, I had just moved back home to Alabama and was living in the spare room at my grandparents’ house. During those few months with nothing but a suitcase and my laptop, I done what I still...
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Members is back with a brand-new edition
I’m pretty excited about today. Two months and some 200+ code commits ago, I decided to take on the biggest update to the Members plugin to date. After busting through several roadblocks and getting...
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Members – Role Levels WordPress Plugin
It’s a pretty exciting day around the Theme Hybrid office (actually, the front porch is my office, which isn’t really an office at all). Today is the official launch of my first commercial plugin. For...
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Avatars Meta Box WordPress Plugin
While working on the next version of the Custom Content Portfolio plugin, I had an idea about making the portfolio project author selectable by avatar instead of the standard author drop-down box....
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Portfolios like never before
When I first released the Custom Content Portfolio (CCP) plugin a couple of years ago, it was just a simple plugin that registered a post type and a taxonomy. It did pretty much what 99% of all other...
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Reverse Comment Textarea WordPress Plugin
In WordPress 4.4, the textarea in the comment form will be moved to the top with the name, email, and URL fields below it. This is actually a welcome change in many respects, particularly when dealing...
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Theme Designer Beta
When I first launched Theme Hybrid back in 2008, the themes section on this site was built with regular ol’ WordPress pages. Times have sure changed, particularly with the addition of APIs for custom...
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Theme Designer WordPress Plugin
When I first launched Theme Hybrid back in 2008, I done everything with WP’s built-in pages. Themes, plugins, documentation, and everything else was a “page”. That became unwieldy. Eventually,...
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Plugin Developer WordPress Plugin
Last month, I launched the Theme Designer WordPress plugin. It was the first stage of developer tools that I’ve been planning to release for fellow WordPress developers for a while. Theme Designer...
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ButterBean post meta framework beta
I’ve been working on a small post meta framework over the past couple of weeks that I’d like to get feedback and testing on. What does ButterBean do? ButterBean is an object-oriented framework built...
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