MICHAEL FIELDS

Artwork

Michael Fields is a visual artist who's work focuses primarily on the duality that exists inside each and every one of us. The feral beast confounded by logic and order... the internal struggle between instinct and knowledge...

WordPress Development

Michael Fields is a web development professional specializing in the WordPress publishing platform. Over the past 5 years, he has designed and developed a multitude of custom websites for individuals and small businesses in the Portland, Oregon.

Learn more about his work with the WordPress platform.

Graphic Design Portfolio

Michael Fields is a graphic designer who focuses on clean, affordable design for art and music related events.

LATEST NEWS

The Birth of Mutation


Almost time for the new year and I’ve completed the last painting that will be made in 2009. Why write about it? you may be wondering… well, mostly because I can’t find anything else to do with my time at the moment: I already put in a good pinball session today (Lord of the Rings at Beautiful Pizza) and I really don’t feel like writing anymore code… yuck! Since I can’t find anything better to do, I thought that I would let you know that I won’t be finishing anymore paintings this year and let you know what’s in store for next 2010.

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Flower Dancer

Flower Dancer

Acrylic, ink and carbon 7.25" x 7.25" on wood Collection of Heidi Elise Wirz Read More

How to Create a WordPress Shortcode that Only prints CSS for Certain Posts, Pages or Attachments

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This morning, I found myself converting a WordPress Page Template into a plugin when I found myself limited by the WordPress Shortcode API. "Limited?" you ask. "The WordPress Shortcode API is awesome and easy to use... how could you possibly feel limited?" Well, I ran into a problem, but I found a s... Read More

Bulk Image Resize Utility Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0g4u5QbeX8 I've been working on a new plugin for WordPress which enables users to update all of their uploaded images after they have changed the Media Settings for their installation. The Bulk Image Resize Utility is currently in the beta stages of development and I... Read More

Aliased: How fonts look on my computer when rendered through a browser.

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I ended up getting into an interesting discussion with a couple of folks at last week's Portland Wordpress User Group. The conversation started with me thanking Devin Price for re-tweeting the link to my Custom Header Interface Screencast. Shortly after that, our table talked a bit about how it work... Read More

TEMPLATEPATH for Child Themes

So, the topic of this month's Portland Wordpress User's Group is "Child Themes". I've never really utilized this functionality of WordPress until a few days ago when I worked support into The Platypus Theme. One thing that I noticed was that the value of the constant TEMPLATEPATH always points to th... Read More

Platypus Custom Header Demonstration

Second ever screen-cast highlighting the Custom Header functionality of the Platypus Theme. Read More

One More Time - Sticker for Jesse Reno

One More Time – Sticker for Jesse Reno

Medium: 2 color silkscreen print Surface: vinyl Size: 3″ x 3″ Client: Jesse Reno Printed by: Diesel Fuel Read More

Horse Shadow - Sticker for Jesse Reno

Horse Shadow – Sticker for Jesse Reno

Medium: 2 color silkscreen print Surface: vinyl Size: 3″ x 3″ Client: Jesse Reno Printed by: Diesel Fuel Read More

Speakeasy Postcard

Anka Speakeasy (Front)

Medium: 4 color process digital print Surface: paper Size: 6″ x 4″ Client: Anka Gallery Photo Credit: Rose. Read More

Platypus - New WordPress Theme Sneak Peak

Text-based Image Links - No Longer Needed

I was recently looking through the WordPress Codex when I stumbled upon the pages for the following two functions: previous_image_link() & next_image_link(). These functions control previous and next navigation while a user is viewing an image attachment's page. Up until now, these functions would o... Read More