I’m working on a subscription site in WordPress for a client, and they are using cart66 as the shopping cart, and MailPress as the mailing list software. I needed a way to automatically sign up new Cart66 accounts to the Mailpress users. This tiny plugin does just that: [php] <?php /* Plugin Name: Cart66 MailPress… Read more »
Author: Michael Tracey
Michael is lead tech at Ponderwell, as well as CTO of Biblio and enjoys the mountains of Western North Carolina with his family. His hobbies include Photography and playing games with his son.
PonderTech 1: Bookmarking and Content Curation Workflow
Join us on February 2nd at 6PM EST, on Ponderwell’s Google+ page for the first official episode of PonderTech, a Google+ Hangout. Our guest speaker in the Google Hangout will be Clark Mackey of Asheville based web marketing firm, Spark Dog. He will be discussing leveraging your web based content in a workflow to improve your online… Read more »
New Service Launching: WNCAdGuild
We are preparing for a spring launch of our vertical ad network for Western North Carolina, WNC Ad Guild. Those of you following Ponderwell’s Community Media project already know that we are interested in local community news. One of the challenges in providing local news is having relevant local advertising to go along with it…. Read more »
Community Media Initiative Full Summary
Welcome to Ponderwell’s CMDI proposal presentation page. On Thursday, September 22, 2011, we went in to explain to a city/county committee exactly what it is we’d like to build for this community. What follows is essentially what we told them, edited for reading purposes (and without the jitters and gulps of deep breath which were… Read more »
How to use HTML in WordPress’s widget’s title
If you want to use HTML in the title of any of the standard wordpress built-in widgets, you’ll find that the WordPress core doesn’t have any support for this. The functions that create these widgets hard code a PHP strip_tags() function call into them, making it impossible to remove in your functions.php file with something… Read more »
WordPress Featured images, and custom image sizes
I recently built a site that let me explore the relatively new WordPress features of post thumbnails, along with the ability to auto scale/crop images while they are getting uploaded to WordPress. The site, ImageAsheville, called for an unusual design, one similar to the fantastic AutoFocus WordPress theme (which I used as a basis for… Read more »
CodeIgniter, Pagination and SEO… How to NoIndex CI pagination.
After building a site using CodeIgniter’s pagination library, our SEO team let us know that search engines was spidering deep down our pagination, and all those pages were diluting the link juice of our site. The other problem is that our html title tag was identical for the search queries, no matter how deep into… Read more »
New Site Launch, Crossroads Music
Ponderwell is excited to announce that we have just completed the redesign of crossroadsmusic.com, an Asheville, NC based record label and online music store. They have branched out over the years from Southern Gospel Soundtracks to a wide variety of Gospel and Bluegrass music. The new site features a custom shopping cart to facilitate digital music delivery… Read more »
Starting a Web Design / Programming Firm
I was recently asked by an acquaintance what it took to start a design/programming firm, as he was considering getting into the business. I’ve learned a few things about it, having run a one-man company, and now a company that now has four staff, and hires out bits of work that we don’t have the… Read more »
Easily create WordPress 3.x hover/rollover menus with Jquery.
Ever since the release of WordPress 3.0 a couple months ago, people have been moving quickly to implement one of it’s most useful new features, the Custom Navigation Menus. They are easy to create, even easier to manage and generally help stop developers from constantly coming up with different and disperate solutions to this very… Read more »