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  • #Chatting & Podcasting & Speaking

    By now you all know that I love WordPress and I love responsive design and I won’t shut up about either. So here’s a recap of where I’ll be chatting and talking about all things responsive WordPress in the coming months…

  • Walking the Fine Line

    On this week’s RP3 Magnetisms, I write about the art of the compromise, or how to balance a client’s wishes against your agency’s expertise: http://rp3agency.com/blog/walking-the-fine-line/

  • Taking My Passions to South Beach

    Taking My Passions to South Beach

    #Announcement: this spring I'm taking my passion for #WordPress and #RWD to south beach and speaking at @wordcampmiami. — tracy rotton (@taupecat) February 17, 2014

  • NSCorp.com Wins iNova Award

    RP3’s big summer project — the Norfolk Southern corporate redesign — just won gold in the 2013 iNOVA awards for best redesign in technology and services. Yay, team!

  • Announcing a New Plugin: Flipboard Magazine Widget

    Announcing a New Plugin: Flipboard Magazine Widget

    Hey you, yes you! Take a look at my sidebar. See that magazine-cover-looking-thingy? That’s thanks to my new plugin, Flipboard Magazine Widget. You can grab it over here at the WordPress plugin repository.

  • The Trouble with Jetpack

    Jetpack, the ubiquitous plugin from Automattic, is likely one of the most polarizing collections of code in the WordPress universe. And in recent days it has occupied its own special level of hell for me.

  • Watsonbombing

    Watsonbombing: when your response to a request for help consists solely of IM’ing a URL to a vaguely-documented API with the implication, “Get to it, kid.”

  • “Stop bitching and fuckin adapt”

    I think I just wrote my fastest plugin ever. Inspired by a Twitter request from Jeff Chandler, I adapted Matt Mullenweg’s classic “Hello Dolly” plugin to instead stream the words of wisdom from the NFL’s now most famous cornerback. (For this, Matt, I’m truly, truly sorry.) Download the awesomeness from my GitHub account and let…

  • CodeKit and Grunt and Gulp, Oh My!

    CodeKit and Grunt and Gulp, Oh My!

    [comment]Gather ’round children, and I’ll tell you how we did it back in my day. When I was a youngin’, not much older than you are now, we didn’t have any of that fancy CSS. JavaScript neither. PHP? Why, that was just a glimmer in Rasmus’ eye. What we had was HTML, plain and simple….

  • Of Books & Podcasts…

    Of Books & Podcasts…

    Quick update! Due to travel schedules, my podcast appearance will be on March 27. Please adjust your calendars. Great news, everybody! Actually, terrible news. Well, a little bit of both, but more great than terrible. I hope.