I'm David, web designer/developer specializing in building functional websites using WordPress. I have strong skills in theme development using Hybrid Core framework and plugin development. It's okay if you want to hire me.
So, On January 1st, 2017. I moved to a new place. It’s a small house kinda in the middle of nowhere.
In 2016, I was always moving from one place to another every couple months and rent small room on monthly basis
(like a grass-hopper, jumping around from one place to another) Read More No Longer a Grass-Hopper
I didn’t ask this question a lot. But recently a client linked to an article, possibly to make sure I didn’t ask for their estimate budget for the project (which is fine):
The Worst Question To Ask Your Clients: “What’s Your Budget?”
The article covers some valid points. Asking budget question might be a sign for:
But I don’t always agree. In some case asking for budget is totally fine. Read More Why Do We Ask: What’s Your Budget?
I feel like I should celebrate 🍻
Before you read this tutorial, please read earlier tutorial: WordPress AJAX for Beginners.
In this tutorial, I will explain several method in how to secure AJAX request using nonce. Read More How to Secure WordPress AJAX using Nonce
Here’s a guide to debug if you have bug on your WordPress website:
In my new plugin f(x) Maps, I create a location search with ability to get current address/location using HTML 5 Geolocation and Google Maps Geocoding API. And in this post I want to share how I did it. Read More How to Get Current Address Using HTML 5 Geolocation and Google Maps API
In recent projects I use AJAX more, and I think it’s time to share my knowledge. This tutorial is just a simple guide to understand the basic about using AJAX in WordPress.
To follow this tutorial you will need to understand the basic of:
Today I sold my Asus Zenfone 5 for $50. I bought it 2 years ago for around $200.
For the replacement, instead of getting a better phone. I bought $80 Hisense (chinese) budget phone. And I also bought cheap $15 bluetooth game-pad. And I’m very happy with it.
It’s amazing how fast technology accelerate. My new phone is faster and snappier with less than half the price of my old phone.
WordPress plugin have a activation method, It’s very useful, and we can use it for various things.
One of the popular method in plugin, is “Activation Redirect”, this is a method used by a lot ( I mean **A LOT**) of popular plugins to redirect user to plugin settings page, setup page, or even plugin about page (of course, within the admin panel) when user activate plugin.
This is (probably) useful for user on-boarding purpose, annoy user, keep the user inform about the feature of the plugin or help them setup the pages required by the plugin or install additional plugins/add-on.
Note: I actually really hate it when plugin/theme author did this. But in some case it could be useful.
Usually plugin use register_activation_hook() function to do this. But theme don’t have similar method/function. However, there’s a workaround for that.
Sometime we need to save API key, or password, for external services in our WordPress plugin. It’s problematic, since we have to use that key to make API connection, but we don’t want to save it in plain text (because it’s just plain dumb). So we need a way to encrypt this key and save it to database, and decrypt it to use. Read More WordPress Plugin: How to NOT Store API Key/Password in Plain Text
Update: f(x) Builder Now Available!
This is the 3rd day of working on my own WordPress Page Builder plugin. And this is the current progress:
I was looking for a WordPress page builder to use on my own sites, but I can’t find one that “fit”. All seem too complex. Read More New Page Builder Plugin: f(x) Builder
