John Hawkins Unrated

A few weeks back I attended WordCamp New York. While there I was asked to take part in a discussion on canonical plugins for WordPress. I had heard of the concept but not the terminology. In case you are in the same boat, to make a plugin canonical would be to mark it as the [...]

I’ve always thought it would be cool to write my own WordPress plugins. Plenty of times I’ve taken existing plugins and tweaked them here or there to do a slightly modified version of their original intent, but never have I started from scratch and created my own plugin. Until now, that is.
Last week I decided [...]

I just set a reminder in my phone to repeat every 2 months. It says 3 simple words; CLEAN YOUR BLOG!
I logged in to the admin section of JohnHawkinsUnrated the other night and was checking the plugin page when I realized I had to scroll down a page and a half to get to the [...]

Today at the BlogWorldExpo show I went to a session called Power Widgets to Amp Your Blog. I don’t know exactly what I was expecting when went to it, but I ended up hearing about 4 different blog widgets. 2 of which I had heard of, 2 were brand new.
The one that stuck out most [...]