Today is my last day at iThemes. It’s been a great two years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’m very appreciative of my time here and I will absolutely miss all the people. If you haven’t checked out iThemes or had the chance to meet Cory, Matt, or any of their amazing team, you definitely […]
Author: Aaron D. Campbell
Migrating from Mandrill to SendGrid
Recently The Rocket Science Group, the company behind both Mandrill and MailChimp, decided to change things up. They decided to roll Mandrill, their transactional E-Mail service, into MailChimp as a paid addon available to paid MailChimp accounts only. A lot of people freaked out or got really upset, most of them focusing on the fact […]
Being Understanding in this Digital Age
This has been an interesting week for me. I’ve worked every day from a hospital room. To try to keep a very long story somewhat short, my grandma was in the ER Sunday, the experience was bad and they dismissed her rather than taking the time to actually figure out the problem. This resulted in […]
Plugin Translations
WordPress is now letting plugins hosted in the WordPress.org repository use the GlotPress setup at translate.WordPress.org to handle all their translations! Twitter Widget Pro is now ready to be translated and all my other plugins will slowly follow!
WordPress Security – The Big Picture and What You Need
I’m pretty passionate about WordPress, I’m pretty passionate about security, and I’m heavily involved in both. I’ve been working with WordPress for over ten years and helping build WordPress for over eight. I’m also on the WordPress core security team and have recently taken a lead role working on the iThemes Security plugin. There has […]
Adding your WordPress Plugin to GitHub
I’ve started putting my plugins on Github so it’s easier for developers to contribute. One of the big benefits of version control is the history, so I would hate to lose that on the move to git. The good news? I didn’t have to. The better news? It was actually easier than you might think. […]
My WordPress Plugins
For the first time in about fourteen years, I don’t have a company of my own. I’ve always kept my plugins on my company site, but now they’re all going to reside here for a while. My WordPress Plugins
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Simple Terms
First let me say that search engine optimization is a very complex subject. There are people who really know what they are doing and plenty of people that don’t. This writeup will not get you to the point where you really understand it all, and I highly recommend that you budget for a professional, but […]