Adding JS to the WordPress admin, and keeping it on one page
Curtis McHale
A tutorial to show you how to enqueue JS in the WordPress admin on one page only.
Encouraging Community Collaboration and Development
Pippin Williamson
A topic that has intrigued me a lot over the last few months is how to build up a strong community of contributors to projects. Are their aspects that help encourage community members to collaborate? Aspects that discourage it?
Easy Digital Downloads v1.4.3 Released
Pippin Williamson
Version 1.4.3 has been released! This is primarily a maintenance release but does also contain several new features. The main new feature that will be of significant importance to users is the automatic catch of refunds processed through PayPal.
What do y’all think about a periodic job thread?
Brian Krogsgard
There's a lot of moving and shaking in the WordPress community. Would a jobs thread here be beneficial? As a place where job seekers could post that they're looking for work and / or available employers could post that they…
Non-Breaking Business
Brian Krogsgard
This morning, I listened to the latest episode of the Non-Breaking Space podcast. Non-Breaking space is one of my favorites, and this episode they had on Gene Crawford and Carl Smith to talk about web businesses. It's not directly related…
Community Advice for WP Beginners
John Saddington
Siobhan McKeown shares an epic post on Smashing Magazine on how beginners can get ramped up quickly in WordPress. The community wisdom is truly highlighted here.
Understanding MySQL in WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Taylor goes into great detail describing the use of MySQL in WordPress. Put your focus hat on to read this one.
Dre Armeda and Brad Williams tease “DradCast”
Brian Krogsgard
It seems that Dre Armeda and Brad Williams are destined to return to the internet-airwaves soon, with what appears to be a podcast called, "DradCast." Drad is the nickname that Brad and Dre have given themselves as a tag team…
When to use the alternative PHP syntax
Brian Krogsgard
Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it's appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a…
bbPress 2.3 in beta
Brian Krogsgard
bbPress 2.3 has entered its first beta. If you are a bbPress forums user, now is the time to go grab a copy and test it on your development installs. bbPress has really matured over recent years, and is a…
Automattic (via Code Poet) promotes Envato properties. Should they?
Travis Northcutt
In this post on Code Poet (which is an Automattic site or "shindig"), the author links to a tutorial hosted on http://wp.tutsplus.com, which is an Envato property and prominently promotes ThemeForest. How does this jive with the recent brouhaha involving…
Obox temporarily removed from WordPress.com marketplace due to Theme Forest conflict
Brian Krogsgard
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
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…
