Devin Price

The Four-Day WordPress Work Week

Dan Knauss

November 11, 2022

Who's doing the four-day work week in WordPress? • What good sources for professional development have you found? • Getting your implementation intentions right.

Devin Price relates his experience launching an…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

Devin Price relates his experience launching an extension in the WooCommerce Marketplace, and he shares some initial sales numbers. Devin's conclusion: "I have a few additional extension ideas but am hesitant about investing the time until I see how this first…

Devin Price has a helpful snippet…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Devin Price has a helpful snippet for accessing an external API through the server, so that the data can be used with with client-side JavaScript. His sample shows how to get shipping rates from an external service, for use in…

CodeInWP did an analysis of over one…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

CodeInWP did an analysis of over one hundred WordPress theme shops and ranked them, based on their Alexa positions. Alexa isn't the best source for true marketplace benchmarks (Syed Balkhi shared why a couple years ago), but it is at least within the…

Devin Price has released a “Better…

April 14, 2016

Devin Price has released a "Better Blockquotes" plugin which provides an way to easily add citations to quotes using the WordPress editor. I love little plugins like this, and citations in blockquotes are super annoying currently.

Devin Price shows how to extend…

February 17, 2016

Devin Price shows how to extend background image support in the customizer.

Devin Price shares how you can…

December 22, 2015

Devin Price shares how you can track Jetpack shares in Google Analytics.

Custom links in the Customizer

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

Speaking of the Customizer, Devin Price has a short and sweet tutorial on inserting a custom text link into the customizer. As he notes, it can be useful for links to documentation, upsells, etc.

Slurped data from the WordPress theme repo

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2015

Aaron Jorbin created a script to download every theme from the WordPress theme repository, and Devin Price has used the script to slurp some interesting data from those themes. For instance, he guesses that ~17% of themes utilize Underscores as…

Devin Price is the new owner of DevPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 11, 2014

Business

Devin Price is a developer from Austin, Texas and owner of WP Theming, an excellent WordPress blog. He also hosts his plugins and themes on WP Theming. Devin is the author of the popular Options Framework plugin, the Portfolio Post…

DevPress sold for $14,000 on Flippa

Brian Krogsgard

April 6, 2014

BusinessDesign

Update: Devin Price is the new owner. DevPress has a storied four year history, and today it's been sold on Flippa for a mere $14,000. What started as a partnership between four well known WordPress community members was eventually reduced…

Where to learn WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2014

WordPress News

I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2014

Development

The theme customizer feature was introduced in WordPress 3.4, released June 2012. Since then, it's been a great tool that's allowed theme developers to move away from complex options managers to a simpler, more logical interface where many settings can…

How the Washington Post used WordPress to power The Grid

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

Development

The Washington Post has a feature called The Grid that tracks realtime events in, well, a grid. It's a combination of tweets and other things they find interesting, and in this profile, they show how they used WordPress and other…

Lazy loading images, explained

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

Development

I love posts like this. I've never given Lazy loading of images much thought. Devin Price has explained what lazy loading actually does, how it's best handled in WordPress, and gives his recommendation on how to best use this sort…