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While the name “Jon Phillips” may not be instantly rec­og­niz­able to you, if you attempt to keep your thumb on a gen­eral pulse of the web design com­mu­nity, chances are you’ve come across him already, or at least his online mag­a­zine Spyre Studios.

I recall the day that the idea of inter­view­ing him came up. Selene M. Bowlby and I were talk­ing and I went to my twit­ter list to see who I could inter­view next. Jon’s pro­file showed up and to me, approach­ing him felt like aim­ing for the stars. I men­tioned the idea to Selene and she was for it 100%, She sug­gested to men­tion her­self in my intro­duc­tion email since her and Jon had con­versed a lot in the past. Thank­fully, Jon agreed to par­tic­i­pate and here we are, about to get to know Jon Phillips.

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Nah, you don’t know her! Or maybe you do?

If you’ve ever talked to her, you know that she has a burn­ing pas­sion for what she does and really loves the com­mu­nity that has evolved since the olden days. I know that I feel I got to get to know her just that much more after receiv­ing these responses, and I hope you feel the same. Lets get to know her a bit bet­ter together. Don’t for­get to fol­low her @idesignstudios (Twit­ter).

Who are you and what do you do?

Selene M. Bowlby: My name is Selene M. Bowlby. I’m a web designer and front-end web devel­oper with over ten years of pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence in the design indus­try. (con­tinue reading…)

I real­ized that I will likely ref­er­ence many twit­ter peo­ple in posts and I think it is com­mon cour­tesy to link to their pro­file so that you can go check them out if you want. How­ever, I also want to be lazy and not have to type out their full twit­ter url all the time. Thus I decided that a short­code would be nice and efficient.

With the fol­low­ing code,


<?php
function twitter_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {
return '<a href="http://twitter.com/' . $content . '" title="' . $content . '\'s Twitter Profile">' . $content . '</a>';
}
add_shortcode('twitter', 'twitter_shortcode');
?>


I can wrap a user­name in [twit­ter] [/twitter] and have it out­put the full link, like this tw2113 (Twit­ter)

Edit

I have since real­ized that this is per­fectly capa­ble of work­ing with identi.ca as well. For word­press users of Identi.ca, copy/paste the fol­low­ing code into your functions.php file. It will work the exact same way regard­ing wrap­ping the user ID


<?php
function identica_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {
return '<a href="http://identi.ca/' . $content . '" title="' . $content . '\'s Identi.ca Profile">' . $content . '</a>';
}
add_shortcode('identica', 'identica_shortcode');
?>


Like so: tw2113 (Identi.ca)

Ladies and Gen­tle­men, My name is Michael Beck­with, and I am a self-confessed min­ion. I am at Rachael’s com­mand. When she tells me to go make a site update, I go do it. When she tells me to go con­vert a newly arrived web design into a theme for your new favorite blog, I go do it. When it comes to her bid­ding, I’m on it. Such is the life of a caf­feinated min­ion, and you know what? I would not have it any other way.

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