Styling comments based on custom user role
Curtis McHale
WordPress provides classes for stock roles on comments, this tutorial shows you how to add them for custom roles and how to style the comments.
WPSessions: Learn from experts
Brian Krogsgard
Brian Richards has launched a new project called WPSessions. WPSessions is a series of monthly presentations from some of the foremost experts in the community. The first Session will be Saturday, June 22nd on Building WordPress Plugins. Brian says that…
Reality66 (behind Cart66 and Mijireh) launches Cart66 Cloud
Brian Krogsgard
Wow. I wonder if this may be what was going to be WP Stores? I wrote about Cart66 at WPCandy over two years ago, that caught a bunch of attention / upset customers. Their owner was really nice and I…
You probably don’t need do_shortcode()
Brian Krogsgard
Konstantin Kovshenin brought up a good point on his blog, that we should be avoiding do_shortcode() if we can easily use the callback directly. Using the callback function directly prevents WordPress from invoking the shortcode regex that parses shortcode strings.…
How NASA is promoting open source technology
Brian Krogsgard
Sarah Gooding has a nice post on WPMU describing how NASA is promoting open source, and WordPress specifically. It's great to see huge organizations like this realize the power of open source development.
WooThemes integrates with Creative Market
Brian Krogsgard
Creative Market hit the scene pretty quickly earlier this year as a 100% GPL theme marketplace. Now, WooCommerce has announced that they have made some of their themes available on Creative Market.
Core caching concepts in WordPress
Curtis McHale
Another great post from Zack Tollman about caching and WordPress.
Sub Posts helps you link WordPress posts to one another
Brian Krogsgard
Linking posts to each other is quite a hassle in WordPress, especially if they are of different post types. Sub Posts enables you to setup these links, link the posts and display them on your website in minutes.
Automated WordPress development
Brian Krogsgard
Want to stop wasting time manually linting, concatenation, and minifying style and script files in your WordPress theme or plugin? Then you should start using Grunt - a cool tool that does it all for you. 10up has even released…
Please do not use curly brackets {} in template files
Pippin Williamson
My thoughts on why you should NOT use curly brackets in theme and plugin template files.
Bundling plugins into themes is really dumb
Brian Krogsgard
Coen Jacobs posted about a couple of examples where theme authors were bundling commercial plugins into their commercial themes. This is incredibly dumb, which Coen gives good reasons as to why. The comments are also worth reading. And for an…
Mike Jolley releases beta of a new job manager plugin
Brian Krogsgard
Mike Jolley, the lead developer and original creator of WooCommerce, has released a beta version of a new plugin called WP Job Manager. It's free and available on Github. Knowing how WooCommerce works, I'm really excited to try this out.…
How to adopt a WordPress plugin, or to put it up for adoption
Brian Krogsgard
Jeff Chandler has put together a good post on how to adopt abandoned WordPress plugins, or to put your own plugin up for adoption. One of the toughest things about using other people's plugins is that it's hard to know…
Holy Crap – Adobe Brackets
Curtis McHale
At the very least, it's probably time to give Brackets a serious look for your WordPress theme building.
WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin has written another useful post on the wpTuts+ blog. He reminds us to stick to the WordPress coding standards for our naming conventions and function arguments. As you start working with other developers on projects, or see your…
Automatic remote backups added to WP Remote for $5 per month
Brian Krogsgard
WP Remote, the update and backup solution from Human Made, has announced their first commercial plan for their popular product. You can now pay $5 per month per site to get automated backups stored remotely. This sets them up as…
