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About Dougal Campbell

Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.

Theme Hook Alliance: Sidebar Edition

Recently, Doug Stewart (@zamoose on Twitter) announced the Theme Hook Alliance. This is an attempt to create an ad-hoc standard for new action hooks in WordPress themes. You see, there are some standard actions that WordPress themes are supposed to include: wp_head(), wp_footer(), get_sidebar(), and comment_form() are all good examples. By using these standard action hook template tags, plugin developers can inject extra info into a content page without explicitly editing your theme’s files. This makes … Continue reading

Looking for a WordPress job

I really enjoy working at Turner — great company and great people. But this Drupal crap is for the birds.

Yesterday, I got two different job opening leads for WordPress development. Hoping that one of them might be the right fit for me!