• Going all in: One year later

    On this day last year I went all in with WP Dispensary, leaving behind 10+ years of full time freelancing. It was one of the most exciting times in my life, both professionally and personally. I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders when I was able to stop freelancing and focus full time…

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  • Delivery Drivers for WooCommerce

    Today I am happy to announce the release of my newest open source plugin, Delivery Drivers for WooCommerce. As you can probably guess by the name, it’s a plugin for WooCommerce that adds functionality for businesses who offer delivery and would like greater control over the entire process. Part of the reason that I built…

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  • Thank You WordPress

    WordPress version 1.5, named Strayhorn after the pianist Billy Strayhorn because “we thought he was perfect to represent the power and elegance of this release” was released February 17th, 2002. That seems to hold true with the upgrades that 1.5 brought users and developers, like the addition of Pages, additional templates and site customization, comment…

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  • 5 Things I’ve learned building my first blocks for Gutenberg

    Over the last few months I’ve watched as Gutenberg has been developed, silently taking notes, watching for patterns and possible areas to excel in. Then I found that the domain Pillar.Press was available and it snapped me into action. You see, for about 6 months I’ve had the name Pillar saved as a name idea…

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  • Back to Basics

    I always thought Impostor Syndrome was bullshit. Then I realized I was 6 months in to running WP Dispensary full time and I had no idea what I was doing. Recently, I’ve been working on WPD v2.0 and have pushed myself to do things with code that I haven’t before. This lead me to question…

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