Sometimes you only want to show posts that you’ve added a specific custom field to. For instance, lets say you write book and movie reviews and for each you give them a custom field “review_type” with the value set to either “book” or “movie”. So how would you show posts [...]

My first-ever bug reported to the WordPress Trac website has officially been patched! About two months ago while developing the Absolute Privacy WordPress plugin I noticed that trying to add new roles (ie subscriber, administrator, etc) often ended in frustrating PHP warnings. I found the problem and suggested a fix [...]

For all those RSS lurkers, it’s time to come and visit the site. I’ve just updated JohnKolbert.com with an re-vamped look. It’s intentionally similiar to the previous theme. I’ve tried not to do anything too drastic. My goal with JohnKolbert.com is to have a consistent theme that I don’t feel [...]

I’ve decided to start a new series of posted called “From the Forums.” Here I’ll feature posts from the official WordPress forums along with my response to them.
Today’s is a simple question for beginners to the WordPress world. “How do you change the blog title after installing WordPress?” (link). When [...]

Those of you following me on Twitter know that I’ve been gone for the last week. My grandfather passed away and I left to attend the funeral. Those who contacted me regarding jobs or just wondering where I’ve been, I apologize. I’ll be spending this week playing catch up on [...]

Sometimes as a WordPress plugin developer you want to get all of the users with a specific role. For example, maybe you want to create a plugin that emails all the “Editors” of your blog. To easily get all users of a role, use the function below.

function getUsersWithRole($role) {
//gets all [...]

Have a great plugin idea for WordPress? I’d love to hear your suggestion! Use this forum for telling me about your great idea.
Here are some guidelines for leaving plugin suggestions:

Do a Google search for duplicates before posting a suggestion
Create a new topic for each plugin suggestion
Leave as many details as [...]