Friday, January 4, 2013

WP Admin Inspiration: Custom Menus by Chris Van Patten

Did you know we love customising the WordPress admin panel? No? Well we do! A lot, in fact. One of our favourite customisations is tweaking the admin panel menus. We’re all used to th…

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Simplify your assets with QuickAssets by Chris Van Patten

Smart caching is a powerful way to ensure your websites are as fast as possible. Letting your users’ browsers save copies of images or stylesheets and reference those on subsequent pag…

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

A Year in Review by Chris Van Patten

It’s been a busy year at Van Patten Media. I thought I’d take a few moments to review what we’ve worked on, the cool projects we were involved with, and where we’re h…

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Admin Inspiration: Customise the Visual Editor by Chris Van Patten

In our last WordPress custom admin screencast, we showed you a cool custom widget. In this next part, we take a look at customising the visual editor, one of the most used areas in WordPress…

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Customising the admin panel: the talk by Chris Van Patten

After I spoke about Customising the WordPress admin panel in Toronto, I gave a modified version of the same talk to our local WordPress meetup group in Buffalo (a fine group of folks, if you…

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Build a better admin panel: screencast inspiration by Chris Van Patten

I’ve talked a bit on this blog about my love of customising the WordPress admin panel. It’s an excellent way of improving your experience with WordPress and making it easier (and…

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Book Review: The Developer’s Code by Chris Van Patten

It’s no secret that here at Van Patten Media we love DoneDone, a wonderful web application for managing projects and tracking issues. As a thank you for our support, the DoneDone team …

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Customising the WordPress admin panel by Chris Van Patten

I was so lucky to have the opportunity to speak at WordCamp Toronto: Developers last Sunday on a topic I’m very passionate about: customising the WordPress admin panel so it’s fo…

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Hosting in a Hurricane by Peter Upfold

Millions of lives across the Eastern United States and the Caribbean have been affected by Hurricane Sandy over the last week. For some, the cost was measured in dollars, but for others, in …

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

How We Built It: The process behind HowIBookedIt.com by Chris Van Patten

I’m so happy with the HowIBookedIt.com, our new side project that tells the success stories of some awesome theatre talents and shares their advice with the next generation of theatre …

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All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards