A comprehensive developer’s guide to the theme customizer

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onJanuary 21, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

This is an excellent guide. Hopefully more and more theme developers will ditch options panels for the customizer.

Case study: Building a WordPress powered web app

ByBrian Krogsgard May 30, 2013January 31, 2015

Josh Kadis has written up a summary of his experience at Quartz (an excellent online business news magazine) using WordPress to build a web app. Their considerations for choosing to build their own API versus use Jetpack’s, using the settings API to their advantage, and a few other tidbits were really interesting here.

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Custom Post Types in WordPress themes: Best practice?

ByTom McFarlin January 25, 2013January 31, 2015

Matt explores the various ways to include various custom post types in themes and asks what’s considered the best practice and why. Great opportunity for discussion in the comments.

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Tech Roundup for the Week of September 12

ByDaniel Schutzsmith September 15, 2022September 15, 2022

Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.

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WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

ByDan Knauss September 28, 2022September 29, 2022

Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.

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Why taxonomy queries are faster than post meta queries

ByBrian Krogsgard July 18, 2013January 31, 2015

I missed this when it published in March, but Taylor Lovett does a nice job explaining why taxonomy queries tend to be faster than post meta queries in WordPress. So, next time you’re trying to decide whether to make some data a taxonomy or meta, perhaps at least consider this as a part of your…

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Design and Development News for the Week of November 7

ByJonathan Bossenger November 11, 2022November 12, 2022

A new way to keep up with that fast-moving project we all rely on, PHP. • Making wordpress/wordpress-develop usable in GitHub Codespaces. • Help count WordPress contributors and sponsors • Directory Serve is our cool tool of the week — a way to serve files to and from your phone.

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