Believe it or not, this year was my first WordCamp Atlanta experience ever. While I have lived in Georgia for a number of years, I’ve never been able to make it. But let me tell you, I sure am glad I made it this year. In short, WordCamp Atlanta blew…

If you know me, you know I’m a stickler for building beautiful and highly intuitive user experiences. I’m always looking to make my own WordPress themes simpler and easier to use. After spending quite a bit of time within the Gutenberg editor, I thought the editor’s toggle controls would be…

AWS and WPEngine recently launched a WordPress plugin designed to bring the power of Amazon Polly to WordPress — and it’s super cool. So what exactly is Amazon Polly? Amazon Polly is a text-to-speech service that uses deep learning technologies to synthesize text into human-like speech recordings. The Amazon Polly…

Ulysses is a fantastic writing app. In fact, the app has been my go-to writing companion for a couple years now, and I honestly couldn’t be happier with it. The minimally beautiful app is a pleasant writing experience that few competitors have come close to copying. While Ulysses has a…

Ever since WordCamp US, I’ve started writing and publishing Gutenberg blocks on WordPress.org as part of my GutenKit project. I wanted to share, and reflect upon, a few quick-fire thoughts I had after some solid conversations about Gutenberg with other WordPress folks. So here they are: It will be interesting…

As I mentioned last week in my 2017 Year in Review post, I’ve been learning quite a lot about how WordPress themes will interface with Gutenberg and developing Gutenberg blocks myself. Sure, there are a number of unknowns surrounding the project, but if you’re still worried about the pending release…

After months of waiting in the WordPress theme review queue, I’m stoked to finally release my first WordPress theme on the WordPress.org Theme Directory. Introducing York Lite, a lovely WordPress theme for bloggers and photographers. Why I’m re-launching York Lite I originally released York Lite on my theme shop as a lead generator for the…

Major wins, lessons learned and a new baby girl. — Each year I like to reflect on what I’ve accomplished over the last 365 days, reviewing any major wins, lessons learned, and failures too. Last year was full of adventure: new products, new friends, and a new baby. Let’s get started! ThemeBeans Annual Review While the theme market in general has tanked for…

I recented added Gutenberg styling to my latest WordPress theme Tabor. Here’s what went down and what I learned. — In the a couple months or so, Gutenberg will revolutionize WordPress publishing as we know it. It’ll finally bring a much-needed standardized content creation experience to WordPress. There’s just one small caveat. Innovation simply can’t happen without WordPress theme developers committing to the Gutenberg experience. If Gutenberg will become the…