WordPress News

Issue tracker for WordPress documentation

Curtis McHale

August 16, 2013

Documentation is a lot of work and it's hard to even know where to start. It looks like an issue tracker may be in the works for it though so we can report bugs and dive in on things that…

A guide to pluggable functions

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

Development

Curtis McHale has written a nice three part series on WP Lift offering a guide to pluggable functions in WordPress. For those unaware, pluggable functions make it easy for other developers to override your functions in their own plugins and…

Apply Filters is a WordPress development podcast

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard are starting a brand new WordPress podcast specifically about development, for developers, called Apply Filters. First, they get an A+ for the name. My own site title may hint as to why I like such…

FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

After reading this article, I decided to try out FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative for tracking RSS and utilizing many features similar to Feedburner's own offering. I just switched to it, so I may do a more in-depth review once I…

AB Press Optimizer wants to be your WordPress A / B testing solution

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

Ivan Lopez has released a new commercial WordPress plugin called AB Press Optimizer that's aiming to be the de facto WordPress A/B testing solution. If you've never experimented with A/B testing, you're missing out. I've seen results from theme and…

WordPress functions you may not have heard of

Elliott Stocks

August 15, 2013

Development

Here are some commonly unknown WordPress functions I've come across when developing with WordPress. A few little gems that I wish I discovered long before I needed them.

Rethinking WordPress widget administration

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

The team at WebDevStudios has done some pretty complete visual mockups of what they view as an improved widget / sidebar management experience. I really like where they are heading. It's more visual and more consistent with where other parts…

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure

mikejolley

August 14, 2013

Security

In this article I talk about the current state of the wordpress.org repository backed up by recent statistics, and give advice on keeping plugins and themes secure during development.

The freelancer’s guide to long term contracts

Curtis McHale

August 14, 2013

Business

This is a great ebook for anyone looking to get in to long term contracts with clients. Eric walks you through the benefits and pitfalls of the practice. He is a seriously smart dude.

Contribute to the future of the WordPress admin dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

August 14, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Hate the WordPress admin dashboard? Now's a good time to voice your opinion. Dave Martin is looking into rethinking the dashboard, potentially for WordPress 3.8. He's put a survey on the Make WordPress Core blog where you can voice your…

ManageWP joins the WordPress news fray with a Digg-like web app

Brian Krogsgard

August 14, 2013

WordPress News

ManageWP has been teasing ManageWP.org for what must be a few months by now. I received an email invite yesterday to see what the wait was all about. Based on the teasers, the new service seemed to be some sort…

Scared of WordPress core Trac? Try bug gardening.

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Helen Hou-Sandí has some advice for those of you that might be afraid of WordPress core's development processes. You could get involved with bug gardening, which essentially allows you to set milestones and make sure bugs aren't getting left behind…

PHP globals and classes for new programmers

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

Development

Justin Sternberg has written a nice and thorough post geared toward beginning programmers to cover common PHP methodologies. I definitely recommend reading this for those that may recognize certain techniques, but don't really fully understand them. I love beginner tutorials…

WordPress.com introduces Connect, a “login with” API

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.com has introduced a new API today called WordPress.com Connect. It's an API to allow websites and applications to offer login capability for WordPress.com users. It's not surprising Automattic has introduced this feature. After all, they have tons of services that…

Career advice for developers

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

Business

Cory Miller gives some career advice for programmers. Cory has been in the web business for a long time, and as the owner of iThemes, has significant authority in this arena. If you're a web developer and looking for some…

The future of WPDB

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

mysql_*() methods are deprecated in PHP 5.5 and it's time for WordPress move on and enable support for PDO or MySQLi. In this article I describe what I played with and what the next steps are for getting a better…