Joey Kudish

At WordPress, Happiness is Automattic

Joey Kudish — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:32:46 +0000

On the first of May, I started a new job at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. I was hired as a “Code Wrangler,” but to date I have not written a lick of code. This is because for the first three weeks new employees must participate in a customer support rotation. I know what you are thinking: “Let the software engineers communicate directly with customers?

Custom post type and metadata support in the REST API

Joey Kudish — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:38:22 +0000

Reblogged from Developer Resources:

We've recently made some updates to the REST API which is available here on WordPress.com and for any Jetpack-enabled site that have the REST API module activated. The API now has full read and write support for custom post types and post metadata.

You can specify a post's post type when you create or edit it. If you're fetching a single post…

Cidade Maravilhosa

Joey Kudish — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:58:03 +0000

Reblogged from Hew:

Our first team meetup this year was in absolutely stunning city of Rio de Janeiro. Here are a few moments from the trip:

Need a new online home? It's easy to import into WordPress.com.

Joey Kudish — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:18:41 +0000

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

We think it's important that you own the content you create online, which is why we make it simple to import or export all your data -- you wrote it it, it's yours, and you can take it where you'd like. If you want to become a part of the WordPress.com community but have been posting on Tumblr, Blogger, LiveJournal, Posterous, or other services, you can…

Current status: coworking in Israel

Joey Kudish — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:42:18 +0000

Current status: co-working with a great team of guys in Herzliya, Israel (near Tel-Aviv). Here we are together earlier today:

I’ve been posting a bunch of other photos from the trip on my photo blog as well: http://photos.jkudish.com/.

It’s been a fun week so far with lots of eating, walking around beautiful places, socializing and working on a secret project that some of our coworkers will enjoy.

If this sounds like a good lifestyle, you should consider applying to work with us at Automattic.

Filed under: Personal, Photography Tagged: automattic, Herzliya, Israel, Photo, Tel-Aviv

WordCamp Victoria: Plugin Development 101

Joey Kudish — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:00:57 +0000

Today I’m giving a presentation at WordCamp Victoria 2013 where I’m showing power users and novice developers how to get started with plugin development. I think a lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to get started with plugin development or just how small and simple can be. It doesn’t require 100s of lines of code…

Many WordPress tutorials out there talk about copy this or that to your functions.php file in your theme. However, it’s just as easy to create your own functionality plugin; which makes for easier to maintain code in the future that isn’t theme dependant. I begin this talk with the basics of what a plugin is and how it’s structured. I then explain the hooks (actions and filters API), followed by a very simplistic demo. I then give some pro tips and talk about some of the most commonly used WordPress APIs in plugins, as well as promote coding standards. A second more in-depth demo is then presented. Finally, I discuss security in plugins and share some resources for developers and users to further learn from.

Here are the slides from the presentation:

Let me know if you have any questions, using the comments below. And if you’re at WordCamp Victoria while you view this, come say hi!

Filed under: Development, Slides, WordCamp Tagged: plugin development, victoria, wordcamp victoria

new photo blog

Joey Kudish — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:03:15 +0000

I have a new photo blog!

I’ve always been a proponent of owning my own data, yet until now my photos have been scattered all over the web since I make use of and enjoy social networks such as Facebook and Instagram. However, these services hold the photos that I upload to them. While I might have the originals somewhere on my devices, it’s nice to have a permanent web home for my photos.

From now on new photos I take with Instagram, as well as my Nikon DSLR camera will be uploaded to the new photo blog. I’ll still share the photos via the usual avenues, so if you already follow me there, you don’t necessarily need to follow the blog too. I know several folks who don’t like or use Facebook or Instagram and I feel like my photos should have their own home, so here it is. As a bonus, I get to play around with all of the new WordPress.com gallery options and the new media manager.

I’ve imported all my Instagram photos and a few of my more recent albums/galleries on the new blog. In the next few days/weeks I’ll be back-filling more of my photos and of course adding new pictures as I take them.

If you’re interested, follow photos.jkudish.com.

Filed under: Personal Tagged: photos

The Jitterbug

Joey Kudish — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:29:23 +0000

Went to the Jitterbug bakery today, which my coworker Jane runs and to which I contributed to during its Kickstarter campaign. Such a lovely cafe with delicious pastries and amazing drinks. If you’re ever in the Tybee Island/Savannah, GA area, I highly recommend it!

Filed under: Day-to-Day Tagged: cafe, Georgia, Jitterbug, Savannah, Tybee Island, WordPress

Wine and Dine Your Visitors with WordPress.com

Joey Kudish — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:00:57 +0000

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

New Tools for Restaurateurs

Between starting the demi-glace and getting the case of chickens out of the walk-in for stock, the last thing we think you should be worrying about as a restaurateur is whether the guests showing up to your soft-open can actually find your phone number and location on your web site. Can phones do Flash yet? How long has that osso bucco been braising?

Pay Another Way: Bitcoin

Joey Kudish — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:00:59 +0000

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

At WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democratic -- accessible and easy for anyone, anywhere. And while anyone can start a free blog here, not everyone can access upgrades (like going ad-free or enabling custom design) because of limits on traditional payment networks.

Today, that changes: you can now buy WordPress.com upgrades with bitcoins.

PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries, and many credit card companies have similar restrictions.