2011 Highlights

• Redesigned our website & launched new logo
• WordCamps Phoenix, Orange County, Reno, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles & Las Vegas.
• Maintained our #1 position for Web Design San Diego on Yelp
• Added a dedicated copywriter and several designers to the team
• Continued working with fun companies Mobiah/Thunder/More
• Organized/Sponsored/Presented at WordCamp San Diego
• Deployed our 3rd dedicated server, WordPress only on this beast!

2012 Predictions

• Crushing it at WordCamp San Diego 2012
• Building up the local WordPress Meetup
• Go east of the Mississippi for at least one WordCamp in 2012 and continue to visit the great camps in the Southwest.
• Work with a brewery on a WordPress website.  Boy do we have some neat ideas brewing.
• Releasing more plugins to the repository, including our BinaryM CMS pack.
• Expanding our team even further.  Email us if you are interested.

We’re putting the finishing touches on our new WordPress dedicated server today. Huge thanks to our friends at G Squared Computing and Illuminated Hosting for helping get it dialed in and setup at the colocation facility. Hat tip to the Covell Group for their excellent monitoring service. Everything is running great, really looking forward to migrating client sites to this new box.

Nerdy Details

1. Intel Xeon processor
2. 12GB Memory
3. 500GB RAID Storage
4. DirectAdmin backend
5. Redundant power
6. rdiff-backup nightly backups

Server Photos

Download jQuery Easy Accordion plugin with looping functionality

The new variable is called “continuous”, it is set to true by default. Setting it to false will cause the slideshow to stop automatically rotating after the last slide has been displayed. Here’s a little usage example:

jQuery('#featuredSlides').easyAccordion({
	slideNum:false,
	autoStart: true,
   	slideInterval: 6000,
   	continuous: false
});

You can also review INDATA’s homepage to see this in action.

This has been tested in IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Chrome & Safari.

Questions? Suggestions? Leave a comment and we’ll do what we can to help.

Pagination for Pages is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily create pagination style navigation elements for pages (or any other custom post type). It uses a numerical based system along with next & back navigation elements.

The plugin includes a single function, pagination_for_pages(), that accepts a single parameter, $getPagesQuery. The parameter is fed to get_pages(); default options are “sort_column=menu_order&sort_order=asc“. Override that with whatever you want from the get_pages() documentation. The function returns an unordered list with the class of paginationForPages.

Example

We’re using this plugin in the Project section of our website. Take a look at the bottom of the Neotech Aqua project page for a visual example. Here’s the code that we’re running:

single-project.php template

<?php
 	if (function_exists('pagination_for_pages')) {
 		echo pagination_for_pages('post_type=project&sort_column=post_date');
 	}
?>

style.css file

.paginationForPages {
	list-style:none;
	text-align:center;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
.paginationForPages li {
	display:inline;
	font-size:.9em;
	padding:0 .25em;
}

New feature requests? Need support? Bug reports? Customizations? Drop a comment.

History

• 0.1: Initial release, very bare bones.

Missing required attribute: availability (xxx items)
Missing Unique Product Identifiers (xxx items)

We need to add two new fields into the product feed, g:availability and g:mpn. According to Google’s Feed Specification there are 4 acceptable values for the availability field; in stock, available for order, out of stock, & preorder. We’re only dealing with instock products, so we’ll default all items in the feed to that. We’ll use product ID for the MPN field.

While we’re working on that, why not append some tracking variables to the URL? It’s always a good idea to monitor traffic sources in detail. If you don’t like my parameters, use Google’s URL Builder to come up with your own.

Enough with the words, here’s the code that you need to add to your theme’s function.php file:

add_filter('shopp_rss_item','shoppRSSNewFields', 10, 2);

function shoppRSSNewFields($item, $product) {

	$item['link'] .= '?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=organic';
	$item['g:mpn'] = $product->id;
	$item['g:availability'] = 'in stock';

	return $item;
}

Leave any questions/notes/etc in the comments.

As some of you are aware, we are experiencing a multi-state wide power outage from California to New Mexico.  All of our facilities are fully operational and we forsee no outage during this period.  Our San Diego and Rancho Bernardo data centers are both under generator power and we have over 48 hours of available power and a priority contract for additional fuel if necessary.

Too bad the office wasn’t as lucky, we have a bunch of stuff to catch up on now!

Interesting Stats For WordCamp San Diego 2011

• 23 Sponsors
• 18 Speakers
• 12.5 Hours of WordPress Content
• 7 Organizers
• 200+ Attendees
• 4 Events
• A Whole Lot of WordPress Love

Did I hear something about WordPress at WordCamp San Diego

I am sure you did!  From how to design themes for WordPress to taking the platform to the next level as a content management system, WordCamp delivered.  Sadly, with having to check on so many details and Matt having to prepare for his presentation, we were only able to catch a couple of moments.  But what we did was outstanding!

Video is coming soon!

Not only did WordCamp San Diego steam both tracks of the conference live, to viewers as far away as Trinidad & Tobago I might add, we also recorded every minute. Special thanks to our client Hildreth Media Group.  Word on the street is that the video is post production and on the way to WordCamp.tv.

We got to meet a lot of great people

One of the best aspects of participating in a WordCamp is the ability to meet old friends and make some new ones.  What WordCamp would be complete without seeing John & Todd at 9seeds or Jeff and Brandon at Pixel Jar?  Even better is catching up with old friends like Matt Browne, Jodi Kirkwood, Melani Gordon and Luke Pilon.  Add in the opportunity to engage with some of the brightest minds in the WordPress community like Aaron Campbell, Pete Mall, Cody Landefeld, Kelley Koehler and Lucy Beer.  Add a dash of Automatticians like Sheri Bigelow, top it off with Matt Mullenweg and you have a bowl full of win with a side of inspiration.

The most important take away from WordCamp San Diego for BinaryM?

To get more involved.  While plans for WordCamp San Diego 2012 are already under way, we all need to make a conscious effort to learn, give back and embrace new members to the WordPress community.  How can you get involved?  Well you can join BinaryM at WordCamps in San Francisco or Los Angeles or you can participate at the local San Diego WordPress Meetup.  Either way…get involved!

Last but now least, a special thank you to Dre Armeda at Cubic Two

About 7 months ago I reached out to Dre, who had been spearheading the effort to bring the first WordCamp to San Diego for over a year.  Not sure what to expect, I was blown away by his passion for the community and his desire to make San Diego one of the premier WordCamp destinations.  Working late into the night on several occasions was easy as we both were able to see the same opportunity ahead.  Not only did we gain a collaborator, most importantly we gained a friend.

And that, folks, is what WordCamp is all about!  See you in 2012!

1. WordCamp San Diego: BinaryM CMS Theme (temporarily removed, comment if you’d like to download)
2. PageMash
   1. WordPress.org Plugin Page
   2. Modified version
3. Hero Image
   1. add_theme_support
   2. set_post_thumbnail_size
   3. add_image_size
4. Navigation
   1. wp_list_pages
   2. wp_nav_menu
   3. register_nav_menu
5. Notifications
   1. register_sidebar
   2. dynamic_sidebar
6. About
   1. add_post_type_support
   2. Shortcode API
   3. add_shortcode
   4. get_pages
7. Team
   1. register_post_type
   2. TimThumb
8. Products
   1. WP_Query
   2. add_filter
9. Press
   1. Conditional Tags
   2. get_option
   3. apply_filters
10. Contact
    1. Gravity Forms

Something missing? Bugs? Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
Leave a comment and we can meet up later to discuss.

The ‘team’ would like to thank everyone for their entries. Several stood up on hind legs and made the final choice difficult.  The good news is we dug some holes around the yard and were able to to find a 3rd ticket.  We honestly were not looking for the extra ticket, as we really like digging holes but we found one anyways.  So we will have 3 WINNERS join us at WordCamp San Diego.

And the Winners are……

Razvan Neagu
CPC_Andrew
Barbara Feldman

Silly question right?  The event sold out in less than 5 days and the wait list is huge.  So this next part is going to get you really excited!

It seems that with having an organizer and speaker on the BinaryM team, in addition to being a sponsor, we have acquired 2 too many tickets for our needs.  This is where you come in.

We are giving away two (2) tickets to WordCamp San Diego!

All you have to do to enter to win is answer, in 20 words or less, why YOU Love WordPress and/or why you want to go to WordCamp San Diego.  Post your entries in the comments and cross your fingers.  Haiku is welcome and the more creative the better.

On Thursday the 14th at 5:00 PM PST, our 3 judges will sniff out the winner and post on our site.  It may take some time as typing with paws is a bit difficult.

Meat The Judges – AKA The BinaryM Team

For the record, our judges can be bribed with biscuits.