Social 2.6
Social 2.6 is now available for download! This release was initially intended to handle a smallish set of bug fixes, but then Twitter announced…
About
I am an veteran of the Silicon Valley boom days, relocated to Denver, CO in January 2004. I was been self-employed as an independent developer from 2004-2007 (working on my projects) when I founded a high-end web development shop that focuses on WordPress and web applications.
I’ve been doing web development since 1996. I spent several years designing and building web sites before interest in user interface design brought me into the software industry. From 1998 through 2003 I worked for several enterprise software companies designing the user interface for web-based applications.
Besides my computer related interests, I keep busy with a healthy collection of sports and activities including my family, golf, volleyball, softball (if only I had the time), guitar and photography.
Elsewhere on the Web
The online services I engage on are linked in the sidebar. I have a few other sites I’m involved with:
- crowdfavorite.com – my web development and consulting business.
- cloudmoxie.com – my WordPress web hosting business.
- backupmoxie.com – my managed backup business.
- caitlinking.com – my daughter’s web site.
Hire Me
Crowd Favorite is my web development business. We’ve got a great team of designers and developers and love to take on fun projects.
Speaking
Links to slides/video/etc. from my speaking engagements can be found here.
About This Site
alexking.org officially launched on November 1, 2002. It used a home grown templating system alongside a b2 powered blog. The blog was upgraded to WordPress, a golf blog and PunBB powered forums/ were added (the forums were removed some time back), and content grew and grew in the blog.
It was probably in early 2004 when I was starting to feel growing pains with my templating system. When I built a new King Design web site in 2005 I used WordPress as the CMS platform. I’ve used WordPress to drive pretty much every site I’ve built since then.
I launched alexking.org v21 in November of 2006. alexking.org v2 was a completely WordPress driven site (except for the forums – still PunBB). It’s fairly heavily customized to combine two blogs as well as my old template system content into a single site. I’ve released a number of my customizations as plugins.
alexking.org v3 (current) was launched in August 2011. It is running the FavePersonal theme that is largely influenced by my needs on this site. In this iteration I was able to remove a lot of hacks and use a number of newer WordPress APIs to make the site more maintainable for the long term.
- If you’re curious about what version 1 looked like, the WayBack Machine can hook you up. [back]
[...] My claimID profile is here – I haven’t verified all of the sites/accounts I’ve added yet, and I’ve probably forgotten a half dozen sites/accounts I should add, but it’s kind of cool to have a list of everything in one place. I think I’ll add a link to this on my About page. [...]
[...] I also added this info to my About page, on the off chance someone actually thinks to look there. [...]
I really like the design you follow. It’s a pleasant site to navigate, except the google ads are too big lol. Nevertheless, great work and any tips for beginners?
[...] Twitter Tools – to enable tweets on my sidebar, courtesy of Denver-based dev Alex King [...]
[...] I found out earlier this week about the solution Alex King (of wordpress fame) came up with for his backups. The Amazon Simple Storage Service or Amazon S3 [...]
Its nice blog.
[...] Estava procurando um plugin para integrar o blog com o twitter, após testar e eliminar alguns, resolvi instalar definitivamente aqui no site o plugin chamado Twitter Tools, feito pelo Alex King. [...]
[...] thanks to Alex King I was able to install one of his plugins which he has created for WordPress to enable mobile users [...]
[...] Alex King’s WordPress plugin TwitterTools powered the WP integration for this historic event. Because Loopt delivers status updated to Twitter, this plugin listens to Twitter and was set to create an entry for each Tweet. Written by nickganga in: democrats, elections 08, government, inauguration, obama, technology | Tags: blackberry, facebook, loopt, rss, twitter, twitterberry, wordpress [...]
[...] aprovecharemos para actualizar el diseño que estará basado en el Framework  desarrollado por Alex King al que han bautizado como Carrington.  Ya se acerca el 5º aniversario del dominio ebierzo.com [...]
[...] WordPress developer Alex King, probably best known as the creator of many useful and popular WordPress plugins, this looks like a [...]
[...] think that the underlying message of the developers of WordPress, including Matt Mullenweg and Alex King, is that WordPress is for everyone. Everyone is welome. There are many passionate people out [...]
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Very strange how much we have in common..I look forward to getting in touch with you!
[...] think that the underlying message of the developers of WordPress, including Matt Mullenweg and Alex King, is that WordPress is for everyone. Everyone is welome. There are many passionate people out [...]