Life in a Startup

WordPress: Developer, User

I’m AJ. I live in WordPressville. I work for Headway Themes as well as run my own freelance development shop. I develop custom built child themes on top of the popular Headway Theme Framework. I’d love to work with you on a project. Contact me today and we can get the conversation started.

I love meeting new people interested in WordPress whenever possible. I try to attend as many WordCamps or WordPress user groups as I can.

Choosing a WordPress Theme You’ll Love!

Continuing from my previous post, I thought I would tell you about the process I took to select a theme, the requirements that it had to meet, which themes I decided on, and which ones made the cut. During the summer of 2009, I started freelancing for various friends, family and small businesses. Because my [...]

Why I Moved from Rails to WordPress Development

A few years ago, I made a big life altering decision to move back from Ruby on Rails development to WordPress development. The first real programming language I learned was PHP. I started with WordPress back in 2005 but shortly after that I abandoned it for Ruby on Rails. It was popular and not a lot of [...]

How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure

This is a great article that talks about changing the permalink structure for your WordPress site. It’s definitely worth checking this out.

How to Cron Job Your Web Apps…or If This Then That Your Way to Automation

I have just come across a cool app called iftt.com or If this then that. I have to say it’s a pretty sweet app! It hooks up to a lot of the great web apps out their today to create automated tasks. It’s so cool I’m just going to show you what it can do!

Startups, WordPress, and Life on Mars?

It may come to a shock to some readers here that I am no longer going to be posting about some things on this blog. I’ve taken on a role with Headway Themes that has me blogging more both on the official Headway blog and now over at Headway Hub. Because of this, I’ve decided [...]

First Month Freelancing

I have been working from home for 38 days. A lot of things have happened in this time. I started it all by heading to Kansas to work with Grant and Clay on Headway Themes 3.0 and got a lot done! The team is very excited to get version 3 out the door. You can [...]

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