Floating Social Media Links had humble beginnings as my first WordPress plugin. I originally got the idea for the plugin when working on maintenance for http://oregonyouthline.org/. We needed a better solution for our social media links and actions (ie, Facebook like) than a column of super outdated icons (including a MySpace one) on the homepage (the old icons ended up…
Fixing a 9-year-old Typo in WordPress
I just patched a fix for a small grammar error in the instructions at the top of the Permalinks Settings page in WordPress (#25210). It fixes a sentence that Matt Mullenweg wrote in 2004 and hasn’t been touched since. I can’t believe no one noticed this over the past 9 years and millions of WordPress installs.
Needless to say, Sergey Biryukov committed the fix within a couple of hours. So, I guess that’s my contribution to WordPress 3.7. I’ve already made more substantial contributions (both in code and discussion) to WordPress 3.8 via Twenty Fourteen, but I don’t expect to touch much else in 3.7 since it doesn’t address any UI components.
Random Colors: Easier Than You’d Expect
I explain the code behind my “random colors” feature.