This is the blog of Austin Matzko. You can learn more about me here. I am a web developer who specializes in the WordPress blogging and content management software, which means that I write WordPress plugins, create themes, and maintain various sites for a living. I also participate in the WordPress community as a contributing developer and helper in the support forums.

• See the free WordPress plugins I maintain.
• Follow my open source work on Github.
• I provide professional WordPress support, programming, and theme creation.
• Contact me (via email) austin (located at) pressedcode (dot) com, or open a ticket in my support forum.

I created this plugin because I needed a way to show posts earlier than their scheduled publish date. The client wanted posts to be scheduled for March, with everything that entails: March dates, appearing the March archives, etc., except appearing a week earlier. WP Appearance Date lets you set arbitrary dates for your posts to [...]

I needed a way to send an email in the future, so I came up with WP Delayed Email. Activate the plugin, and you can call wp_delayed_mail() just like you would wp_mail(), except that you pass a timestamp argument for the time you want the email to be sent.

We’ve had a crazy amount of rain today. Here are a few pictures from the interstate traffic camera just a few miles from our house. We live on a hill, and still there’s some water coming up through cracks in the basement floor and flowing through the garage.

I make a lot of WordPress themes, and frequently clients want to associate a particular size of image with a post. You can do this easily with WordPress by using add_image_size() to define an image and then by calling wp_get_attachment_image() later to print the markup for that image. So for example, if I have an [...]

My second son, Benjamin Eliot, was born today at 3:19 CDT, weighing 8lbs. 15oz. and 21 inches long. Like his older sister he was born VBAC, and like his older brother he has a full head of hair.

With each major WordPress release, public changes like the new widgets administrative interface usually get all the glory. Here are some new features in WordPress 2.8 that most users won’t even know exist but you will probably care about, if you’re a WordPress developer. Widgets API The new widgets API lets you create widgets by [...]