Fire Studios

As you continue writing for WordPress more and more, the level of difficulty and complexity of your plugins will eventually reach far beyond the simple back-end data manipulation, as demonstrated in our beginner’s article. In this installment we’ll cover in-depth: database interaction, Admin Widgets, and Sidebar Widgets. Today’s example will be a custom built “Most Popular by Views” plugin, which creates an admin area widget for us to view, and a sidebar widget for visitors to see.

We sit down for another installment in FS Interviews, this time with Jake Mize, a profesional web designer and a pretty damn good one at that. We're going to talk about his favorite projects, go to software and languages, and getting a degree for web work.

WordPress is the largest blogging platform available on the internet today; and with the official release of version three just around the corner, it’s only going to get bigger. As such, over the next few self-contained tuts, we’re going to learn the ins and outs of WordPress plugin development, starting with the creation of our first simple plugin, “Simple Optimization.”

In the next installment of FS Interviews, I give Brian Lovin of Elite By Design a ring and we talk about blogging, time management, redesigning, reviews, selling websites, and how to run a popular blog.

In our next installment of FS Interviews, we grab a coffee and sit down with Jonathan Snook and discuss CSS, book writing, problem solving, and just how he came about being a web developer.

For this sit-down of "FS Interviews", we're glad to have with us one of the most well-known front-end developers, Chris Coyier. We'll discuss primary languages, projects, community management, books, debugging, and notoriety.

In this sitdown of "FS Interviews:" we pull up a chair with reknowned blogger and designer Michael Martin of Pro Blog Design. We discuss what makes blogs work, his favorite project he's ever worked on, most visited sites, and the creative process behind designing a kickass website.

Happy birthday day everybody! It's Fire Studios' sixth birthday and we're celebrating with a brand spanking new design! But that's not all! We're also redirecting our content focus to a more teaching view! Granted, that last part doesn't sound too exciting, but I promise it will mean much more interesting content coming from FS from now on!

A couple of days ago I showed you how to make a category menu. In this post I'm going to show you how to create an even more advanced version of the same function, that not only has all the same features, but also includes the ability to be sorted into a different order.

Here's a short (15 minute) screencast from Fire G detailing everything that's going on here at FS during 2010. I talk about the 6th birthday special event, address the activity of the site, discuss my recent endeavors, and review my work for the past year both on and off site.