A WordPress plugin to help you write your book reviews faster so you can spend more time reading and less time tinkering with formatting.
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Running your own business is hard. I don’t have the answers. I stumbled into this business accidentally. I didn’t form it because I’m a “business expert” or “have a lot of experience”. Most of the time I don’t know what I’m doing. More often than […]
Sometimes a book just isn’t for you. But despite your dislike of the book, you feel you could try another book by the same author. But sometimes an author just isn’t for you. You and the author’s style just don’t get along, and that carries […]
If you’re a long time follower of my blog, you may remember the “Ask Me a Question” button/feature I’ve had on my site for a few years. (It’s not there at the moment because I’m working on updating it.) Awesome readers like yourself submitted blogging/coding […]
738 Days is the kind of book that rips your world apart and slowly tries to put the pieces back together. Kind of like The Sea of Tranquility. In hindsight, it TOTALLY has that same vibe and the power to completely own you. Here’s what […]
You want to add a cool new feature to your WordPress site so you look up a tutorial on how to make it happen. The tutorial gives you a chunk of code and tells you to paste it inside functions.php. You do that. Your site […]
I recently found myself in need of an image select field in the Customizer. The Customizer already has some great options built in like radio boxes, select boxes, and so on. But I wanted images to give users a more visual representation of their choices. […]
I can’t believe I leave for BookExpo America in less than a week! It seems like BEA sneaks up on me every year. I can never believe it when it finally arrives. Over the past few weeks I’ve been buried deep in schedules, spreadsheets, and […]
Since I’m working on migrating all my theme settings to the Customizer I thought I’d start a tutorial series on how to create your own settings. In this tutorial I’m going to be building custom settings into a Twenty Twelve child theme, but of course […]
I’ve started undertaking a big theme recoding project. I’m recoding all the themes in my shop. Pretty much every 6-12 months I look back on my old work and think, “I can do it better.” A lot of my themes haven’t been thoroughly updated over […]
If you’ve been around a little while, you may remember when I released the Novelist plugin for authors last year. At the time, it was a paid plugin, and got a lot of great feedback from its users. Well, one of my big goals for […]