WordPress Developer - Thomas Griffin

Turning a New Leaf in Business

in Personal by THOMAS GRIFFIN • July 11, 2014 • 3 Comments

If you had not read the news before, it has been made official: my products are now part of the Awesome Motive family.

In a cash/equity deal, Syed (you know him from WPBeginner) and I have officially joined forces to continue to work on existing and build new products under the Awesome Motive umbrella. I’m the CTO at Awesome Motive now, which means I will get to continue to work on, cast vision for and build cool stuff around WordPress along with some other awesome people (pun definitely intended).

To anyone who has been following me for a while, … [continue reading]

Webkit Font Smoothing in Firefox

in Web Development by THOMAS GRIFFIN • November 30, 2014 • 6 Comments

I posted this via a Tweet the other day, but I think it would make an excellent blog post.

I love the font smoothing available in Webkit browsers. It makes text look much…prettier (I guess that’s a good term). Up until now, that feature was limited to Webkit based browsers like Chrome and Safari, but Firefox has released their own version of this for OS X that looks nearly identical to the -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; property.

So, if you want Webkit font smoothing in Firefox (as well as for Chrome and Safari), here’s exactly what you need:

Now your text will … [continue reading]

A New Site for a New Idea

in Personal by THOMAS GRIFFIN • July 2, 2015 • 3 Comments

It has been a long time since I have actually built a blog in WordPress that is meant for content consumption. It was refreshing to see some of the workflows I was able to achieve in my latest foray on the web.

I’ve just started working on time maps and allocating my time to specific things, and one of the things I wanted to start up again as a personal hobby is singing. I was really into singing about 3 years when I led worship at a local church, and now that those 3 years have passed without any singing … [continue reading]

Effectiveness and Efficiency

in Business by THOMAS GRIFFIN • April 30, 2014 • Leave a Comment

I’ve recently been reading through an incredible book, What’s Best Next, that gives a gospel centered approach on the Christian view of work and productivity.

One of the ideas that Matt promotes early on in the book is the idea that effectiveness efficiency. I couldn’t agree more.

To explain his point, he gives a comical story of him going to handle an insurance claim for a house fire. In the story, he goes to the house to find a man quite surprised to see him there. After he tells him why he has come to his house, the man … [continue reading]

I’m Building an iPhone App

in Personal by THOMAS GRIFFIN • December 13, 2014 • 1 Comment

I’ve decided that I am going to learn how to build an iPhone app, and I’m going to use my blog to document the process.

With selling all of my products – Soliloquy, OptinMonster and Envira Gallery – I take a lot of payments via Stripe. I like to be able to check in every once in a while to see how many payments have been made, so I have paid for and used the iPhone app Paid for Stripe. In general it works well, but if you know me at all, I’m always looking to make things better.… [continue reading]

Envira Gallery: Taking Galleries to the Next Level

in WordPress by THOMAS GRIFFIN • November 25, 2014 • 3 Comments

I am extremely happy to announce that my latest product, the best responsive WordPress gallery plugin Envira Gallery, has been pushed live.

I have been working hard on the next version of Soliloquy, and Envira Gallery was birthed out of that process. Because the interface and data structure surrounding a slider and a gallery is nearly identical, it made sense to create both so that they can share efficiencies and commonalities together. When a bug is fixed on one, it is necessarily fixed in the other. This gives an unprecedented ability to add value to customers because you can … [continue reading]

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