While working on a site that made heavy used of lightboxes to display images and image galleries, the client requested the ability to display a featured video. They wanted this video to be displayed with a thumbnail in a widget area. At the time, there were plenty of YouTube video channel plugins, but I couldn't find any with lightbox capabilities. Using prettyPhoto, I developed this widget. Continue reading

My brother hosts a personal fitness podcast on blogtalkradio. After uploading each episode, he would manually creating a blog post on his business website and embed the blogtalkradio show within that post. This was extremely time consuming, and annoying for him. With a little digging, I discovered I could help him automate the process. Shortly thereafter, the blogtalkradio plugin and widget were born. Continue reading