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Introduction to using term meta

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Brian Krogsgard

Justin Tadlock has a classic Justin Tadlock tutorial. I loved these back in the day. I learned the fundamentals of using CPTs, taxonomies, widgets, and more from Justin. If you read one thing this weekend, make it his latest tutorial…
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Term meta lands in core

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Brian Krogsgard

Term meta has been committed to core in changeset 34529. This is a hugely anticipated change, and will excited a whole lot of developers. I've covered term meta a good bit the last several weeks, so I'll spare the justifications.…

The case for term meta, and a roadmap for making it happen

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Brian Krogsgard

Term meta is one of the most requested developer features for WordPress. When architecting a site's data, most of us have likely had a desire for term meta to add additional text fields, term images, term ordering, or some other data…

WordPress term order and term meta made easy

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Brian Krogsgard

John James Jacoby has released two plugins that make managing more advanced taxonomy use cases simpler. WP Term Order and WP Term Meta do exactly what you'd think, and they do it well. If either of these features make it…

The term gates are open

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress 4.3 completed the three-release process of eliminated shared terms, and it marked an important step to allow future term feature development and API simplification. Today, Boone Gorges expertly and simply (two things that are hard to combine) explained how…

The third step for shared terms: elimination

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Brian Krogsgard

You may even call it... termination. Okay, I'm sorry. This is from Boone Gorges: Work on the taxonomy roadmap, started in earnest during the 4.1 dev cycle, continues to chug along for WordPress 4.3. We’ve been focusing on the elimination…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

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Brian Krogsgard
I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

ButterBean is a new drop-in custom fields suite by Justin Tadlock

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Brian Krogsgard

Justin Tadlock has released ButterBean, the custom fields drop-in he's been working on for some time. I'm quite drawn to the UI he's created, and that it's been developed completely in JavaScript, using bundled WordPress Backbone.js and Underscore.js. ButterBean supports…

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, has been released. Clifford includes infrastructure for the WordPress REST API, taxonomy and comment improvements, as well as the new Twenty Sixteen default theme, the ability to embed posts anywhere, and much more.

State of the Word, 2015

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

WordPress 4.4 Beta 1 is out

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress 4.4 Beta 1 is available. The release snuck up on me, as it feels like a long time from the expected December release. Maybe it's just the whole year that's flying by. 4.4 includes lots of great developer features,…

Features as plugins hit core for 4.4

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress 4.4 train is rolling and rolling fast still. oEmbed, Responsive Images, and the REST API infrastructure have all been committed to core. The links for the merge tickets are as follows: oEmbed, #32522 Responsive Images, #33641 REST API…
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