WordPress News

How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.

Nevermind

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

Design

"Nevermind". A human, friendly example of nice messaging in a web interface. I love stuff like this. Also, I started reading this blog tonight because Tina Roth Eisenberg, the site's owner, did an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the Big Web…

Designer vs Developer: be the unicorn

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2013

WordPress News

I wish I could've seen this presentation by my fellow Birmingham cohort, Sara Cannon. The deck alone has great advice. Sara breaks down the barriers and self-assigned exclusions between designers and developers. Key: we all solve problems in the middle.…

Batch Resizing 45,000 images in WordPress (via the command line)

Ben May

January 27, 2013

Development

I wasn't able to find anything on the web about the problems faced with trying to regenerate the thumbnails for this many images at one time, so I solved my problem, and thought I'd blog what I did!

Who Owns WordPress? Or How to Make Money in a GPL Universe

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2013

WordPress News

In light of the recent WordPress GPL debate it is worth taking a look at who really owns WordPress, how this is impacted by the GPL, and how you can make money while still staying through to the open principles…

Popular 1 Pixel Out audio player vulnerability

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2013

WordPress News

I read today that the popular 1 Pixel Out player has a vulnerability. The "Audio Player" plugin has been removed from the WordPress repository, and the PowerPress plugin (a very popular podcasting plugin) has removed the 1 Pixel Out player…

Outside the WordPress bubble, what people are saying about it and other CMSs

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

I don't know about you, but I am usually within a pretty "Yay WordPress!" bubble. It's a goal of mine to branch out more and see what I can learn from other systems, and perhaps use what I learn to…

Matt Mullenweg on the internet as the fifth estate

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2013

WordPress News

Matt nicely describes how the internet has managed to triumph in the modern world as an underdog. Today, an individual blogger's voice can be heard by hundreds of millions of people near-instantaneously. Bloggers' cumulative voices can spark change in government,…

If you store WordPress code on Github think about your wp-config.php

Travis Northcutt

January 25, 2013

Development

tl;dr - put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!

Reset

Austin Passy

January 25, 2013

Development

Run this query to reset all posts featured images to the first uploaded image in that post.

A week of visiting websites pretending to be blind

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

Development

As developers, we are still not doing enough to make the web accessible to all types of users. In this story, David Ball spends a week pretending to be blind on the internet. He learned some interesting things, but in…

What WordPress.org support forum tools can be made better?

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

There's some very healthy discussion going on in the Make WordPress Support blog, where Mike Epstein (Ipstenu) asks: What support forum tools can be made better? Be sure to see her list of known ideas (like reply-by-email), check out the…

Custom Post Types in WordPress themes: Best practice?

Tom McFarlin

January 25, 2013

Development

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.

Advanced Custom Fields Add-Ons: Important Announcement

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress sent an email to Elliot Condon asking to "remove all ‘license-key features’ from the repository immediately." The post outlines what will happen to ACF plugins over the next few weeks.

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

Development

WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project's largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project's code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.

Ugh. The “advanced” guide to SEO for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

I know these kinds of tutorials are everywhere. But I saw this one tonight, on a website that (I think) is held in fairly high regard in SEO / marketing land. And I just wanted to cry reading this chapter…