WordPress News

Obox temporarily removed from WordPress.com marketplace due to Theme Forest conflict

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

It was brought up recently that a couple of theme shops were selling commercial themes on both Theme Forest and WordPress.com. In light of recent GPL Drama, that caused some confusion about licensing allowances. StudioPress almost immediately took their themes…

Approaches to WordPress Theme Development

John Saddington

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

Here's a great overview of various approaches for developing killer WordPress themes by Philip Arthur Moore on Code Poet.

Re-thinking the WordPress Plugin Directory

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

The WordPress Plugin Directory is due for an update. It’s great for getting information about specific plugins, but not so great for browsing. The lack of filtering, and the poor quality of relevance results are two of the main reasons.…

Loading WordPress language files the right way

Tom McFarlin

January 31, 2013

Development

A solid post by Geert that provides a correct way to include language files in your plugins as well as a great explanation as to why this approach is best.

CodePen embeds for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

This looks awesome. Sarah Gooding featured this CodePen embed plugin for WordPress over on the WPMU blog. CodePen is a great tool that I've been wanting to use more. If you're not familiar, it's a project from Chris Coyier and…

Why you shouldn’t use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Development

Mike Schinkel posted on his HardcoreWP blog about why you should never use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins. It's a great read. He goes in depth about why, versus just telling you not to. This is how beginner level…

You know you want a WordPress theme for your IRC client

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Design

And Ryan Duff is here to oblige your every whim. He presents to us a WordPress themed Colloquy theme.

WordPress, the enterprise, and security

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Business

Here's an excellent article from one of the top sources in the world on WordPress and web security. Tony chimes in on the challenges that lay ahead for WordPress as it ventures further into the world of the enterprise. His…

The WordPress design and development process

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Design

Tammy Hart, a designer and developer with 10up, shares her process with us. Everyone's varies a little bit. How does it stack up to yours?

Developing WordPress plugins with boilerplates

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin, doing what Tom McFarlin does over on wpTuts+. Go read about why boilerplates matter. I personally use versions of both of his settings and plugin boilerplates, which you can get from the links in his post. Go read…

Memberful wants to help you sell stuff

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Business

Memberful is a project by Drew Strojny and the folks at The Theme Foundry. It's not on WordPress, but it will have easy integrations built in. The Theme Foundry has been using it for over a year to process payments.…

WordPress mentioned in top 7 in demand tech skills for 2013

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

PHP is number 3 in ReadWrite's list of top 7 most in demand tech skills for 2013. And WordPress is noted specifically within that section. Editor's note: Not bad! But where's your capital P, ReadWrite?

WordPress meetup best practices

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

If you're involved with your local meetup (or want to start one), you should be following along the current series on the Make WordPress Events blog from Aaron Jorbin discussing meetup best practices. Today's comments were surprisingly thorough over a…

Ain’t nobody got time for spam

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

Here's a bunch of keywords you can sift through and use for your comment blacklists. Some of these look pretty agressive (especially for a blog like this where we legit use words like blog and SEO), but all in all,…

Plugins vs themes developer chat

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

I took part in a chat yesterday to discuss some of the nitty gritty details around splitting code between plugins and themes. Aaron Holbrook kindly shepherded us together and hosted. There were ten or so of us in and out,…