So I'm working on a real estate site and obviously wanted to use AgentPress from StudioPress but I found a couple of things that I'd like to work a little better/more automated - a featured image and thumbnails on the listing page. On the listing page you have to insert a main image and then can insert a gallery if you choose to do so, but my client needs things to be as easy as possible so I made some changes for them and I'll show you what I did and maybe you can use it as well. In the AgentPress theme we're going to be dealing with "functions.php" and "single-listing.php". First, in functions.php starting around line 13 you'll notice code for creating image sizes. We'll want to … [Read more...]
TwentyEleven
January 1, 2012 By 4 Comments
The year of 2011 was a strange one for me. It began with me leaving the company I co-founded (9seeds) and striking out on my own once again. It was a hard decision but one that needed to happen and was good for me. I miss my 9seeds friends like crazy, but what is cool is that I think I talk to them more now than ever and we've remained good good friends throughout this - and that I'm most thankful for. I attended 2 WordCamps in 2011 opposed to the more than a dozen the previous year and pretty much just kept very low key. I freelanced and spent time focusing on family and work through 2011 and have had great times with my family this year. I tried a couple of different ventures that … [Read more...]
WordCamp San Francisco 2011
August 7, 2011 By 5 Comments
As luck would have it, I am not able to attend WordCamp San Francisco this year. I have two tickets for Saturday only. The event is sold out, so if you want these tickets they're easy to get. Just make a donation to the WordPress Foundation ($20 per ticket) and forward me your receipt for the donation. The first two that I receive will get the tickets. Forward email(s) to shayne[at]shaynesanderson.com Easy enough....go donate!! … [Read more...]
Handy Genesis Functions
May 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
For about a year now, I've started using the Genesis Framework from StudioPress almost exclusively and love it. There was a bit of a learning curve since the way that Genesis is built is a little different than the standard WordPress themes that I have been used to for years, but again - well worth it. The Genesis Framework is quite powerful and I'm still amazed at things I learn about it daily, so hats off to the StudioPress folks. Now, the reason for my post - Genesis functions. As I mentioned earlier, Genesis is built a little different so there are some things to learn. All of what I'm about to show you is available online but I wanted to put it all here for you to read about and for … [Read more...]
My Departure from 9seeds
February 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
So, as the title states - I'm stepping away from 9seeds. These types of things always get people wondering what happened, how did it happen, what went wrong and who hates who. I want to make it clear that none of those apply. The guys at 9seeds are the best and I love them all like brothers I never had. 9seeds is successful and doing great things, and in no way do I want my departure to reflect anything negative about the company because that's simply not the case. This decision is bittersweet as I'll miss the team at 9seeds terribly but I'll also have more time to focus on myself and my family, as the time I am able to be involved with them has diminished over time and I need to get … [Read more...]
WordCamp Phoenix 2011
January 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
So it's pretty obvious I don't blog as much as I probably should, but this is my site so whatever, right?! Anyway, to get things sort of caught up, I've been busy. 9seeds has been busy, thus the lack of posting...just working going on here. But this weekend I'll be at WordCamp Phoenix and thought I'd write a little about it. First, on Friday I'll be doing a free Intro to WordPress for Beginners class as part of the Free WorkShop Friday, which should be really cool. It's from 9am-4pm and we'll cover everything you'd probably ever want to know about using WordPress. I really like this idea as a lot of beginners are lost at WordCamps and just need a very basic intro to what WordPress is, … [Read more...]
Busy Fall
November 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So I haven't posted in quite a while and need to catch up. It was a super busy fall this year and the month of October I was barely home at all. It started with WordCamp Detroit on October 8th. This was Detroit's first WordCamp and it was great. The organization and varying topics that were presented were done well. It's always nice to see a "first" WordCamp with lots of eager minds ready to learn. The following weekend, October 15th, I was at WordCamp NYC for the second year. This year's event was much smaller than the previous year, but it was awesome nonetheless. It was more locally focused, but still brought together some great minds and topics. From NYC, I flew to Las Vegas … [Read more...]
WordPress Twitter Archive
August 30, 2010 By 9 Comments
So...I read a cool article last week about creating a Twitter archive using WordPress at wpmu.org and thought that it sounded like a great idea as I would like to "own" all of my tweets and have them in MY database....just because I can I suppose. So, first I'll say that this is a great article, but the services listed (backupmytweets.com and tweetbackup.com) are not the greatest. They do in fact work, but neither gave me the exported file type that I wanted and for the life of me, I could not get them to import into WordPress as posts. So I went searching with my best friend. Google. What actually happened was that WordPress itself helped me out and solved my issue. If you go to … [Read more...]
iPhone OS4 Upgrade
June 9, 2010 By 5 Comments
So, as you probably know the new OS4 software update for the iPhone comes out on June 21st, but if you're like me there are lots of cool features that I really didn't want to wait for! A friend of mine posted a link today on how to upgrade your current iPhone to run OS4 now, so with little hesitation I took the plunge, and I have to say...so worth it! I'm going to tell you how I did it since I had to jump through a few hoops. My issue was that I sync and make backups for my iPhone on my PC although I do have a MacBook Pro. Well, the only way to get the OS4 update was to run it on iTunes on a Mac, so there was my issue, but have no fear, I'm going to walk you through the steps I took to … [Read more...]
