Approaches to WordPress Theme Development
John Saddington
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,…
A WordPress news resurgence
Brian Krogsgard
Ben Gillbanks reflects on the state of "WordPress news" in the community. I have much I'd like to say on this subject. Alas, time.
The periodic table of WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
This periodic table formatted list of the most downloaded plugins is interesting. That doesn't mean I have to know why they made it. But it's fun to look at :) Even if it's slightly depressing how popular some of these…
