WordPress News

Roll a New MAMP WordPress Install Quickly With This Shell Script

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

I wrote a shell script that creates a new WordPress install in MAMP (directory, database, and security keys) based on your input into the prompts and sends you to wp-admin/install.php upon completion. I use it for every project and put…

JSDB.io – a JavaScript library database

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

JSDB.io is a visual database of many, many popular JavaScript libraries. Very useful for theme and plugin developers.

Github workflow for managing WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

Tom McFarlin shares how he uses Github for managing his WP Audio Player plugin.

Dev7Studios release CarouFredSel plugin

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

Dev7Studios, the makers of the immensely popular Nivo Slider, recently acquired the CarouFredSel plugin. Today, they released a WordPress plugin for CarouFredsel. I've used CarouFredSel for some time for carousels, as it's a pretty robust script. It's nice to see them come…

How to Leave a “Good” Bad Review

Pippin Williamson

February 11, 2013

WordPress News

Even when leaving bad WordPress plugin reviews, there are ways to do it in a good way. I'd like to talk about how to leave a quality bad review a little.

How to charge clients more and grow an agency

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2013

Business

Matt Medeiros has been doing a number of good video interviews on his site, Matt Report. His latest is with Jose Cabeller, and they discuss how to grow your web consulting business. They key seems to be focusing on your…

A Process For Successfully Migrating a WordPress Website

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this article, popular WordPress consultant Bill Erickson provides a complete walkthrough of steps used to successfully migrate a WordPress site from one server to another.

WP Stack – a Toolkit For Creating Professional WordPress Deployments

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

WP Stack is a professional WordPress deployment tool written and maintained by Mark Jaquith. It assumes you're already using a number of professional development techniques. Specifically, WP Stacks aims to help you scale WordPress out to multiple servers.

The Zen of WP Development

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this WordPress.tv episode, Daniel Bachhuber - a Code Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP team - presents what it means to be "one with the code" of WordPress development for providing elegant solutions.

Why does the slug work in a page URL, but not the ID?

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

Here's a very simple question to a potentially confusing problem relating to how WordPress relates ID's, slugs, and tags when dealing with URLs.

How to detect a WordPress URL without doing a full HTTP GET

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this WordPress Stack Exchange question and answer, Jeff Atwood - co-founder of Stack Overflow - asks an interesting question in relation to WordPress and WP Super Cache and Rarst provides the answer as to why.

7 Tips for Better WordPress Theme Development

Brian Krogsgard

February 8, 2013

WordPress News

I gave this talk at WordCamp Norway 2013. It covers several tips and tricks that will make you a better theme developer.

WordPress Performance Optimzation

Brian Krogsgard

February 8, 2013

Hosting

Performance matters because a positive (fast) user experience facilitates all goals a publisher or application developer might have. WordPress, like most applications, has numerous moving parts that must be considered when trying to scale.

Curriculum for a “WordPress school”

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

WordPress News

Sami Keijonen proposes a first draft of what a WordPress school curriculum may look like. I've known Sami for quite a while (via the Theme Hybrid forums) and I'd love to see him move forward with a WordPress course like…

Using WordPress for application development

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin weighs in on the topic of WordPress as a tool for application development in his latest post on WP Daily.

Joomla vs WordPress (or why most infographics stink)

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

WordPress News

I just have a hard time getting behind an infographic. They tend to be so absolute and incomplete. I'm not trying to knock on the people that probably worked pretty hard on this infographic of a comparison between WordPress and…