How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”
Brian Krogsgard
Mark Jaquith explains how he built "Have Baby. Need Stuff!", a baby gear site built on WordPress and inspired by "The Wirecutter"
Building a Better Image Widget with the New WordPress Media Manager
Brian Krogsgard
A thorough post about how you can leverage the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager in a widget.
Contributing To WordPress using GitHub
Brian Krogsgard
Although the official WordPress source code still lives in a Subversion repository, you can contribute patches without having to touch svn
Remove the WordPress Admin Bar – But Leave it for Admins
Curtis McHale
Shows how to remove the WordPress admin bar. Then wraps it in a current_user_can check to keep it around for site admins.
Automattically Blackballed
Chris Lema
Sounds like selling in the Envato marketplace and participating at WordCamps is getting folks stuck in a hard place.
Got big time PHP and WordPress chops? You’re wanted.
Brian Krogsgard
Gil Rutkowski has a new gig heading up web development for a pretty big team. He's a well respected and seasoned WordPress guy, so the PHP and WP gig he tweeted about this morning may be enticing for some of…
WordPress Plugin Troubleshooting Flowchart
Brian Krogsgard
A little flowchart describing how, given plugin X, you could determine if it was conflicting with some other plugin Y, or with your theme. This is a nice helper from Scribu.
WPBillings – an upcoming CRM tool on WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Remi Corson has a landing page up for WPBillings, a free CRM tool for WordPress he's building. Looks very interesting. You can go to the site to sign up for when they launch. Looks like another great "WordPress as an…
How to orderby the include parameter of get_terms()
Brian Krogsgard
Nice example of filtering get_terms() to orderby the include parameter. It's also demonstrating with a WooCommerce example, which is handy.
FooBox: Responsive and Social Image Lightbox Plugin Gets Updated Features and Pricing
Brian Krogsgard
FooBox has been updated to version 1.3.5.1. This new version comes with a slew of feature updates, a few bug fixes, and a new license level.
Theme Wrappers
Brian Krogsgard
You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!
Testing WordPress Batcache versus Varnish
Tom Willmot
When it comes to page caching and WordPress, there are a number of options out there. Nginx caching, Varnish, Batcache, W3TC Page Caching, W
The Business of Opportunities
Brian Krogsgard
A great post about how WooThemes creates opportunities for businesses, enabling them to create opportunities for their customers as well.
Hammy: Adaptive Content Images within WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Hammy speeds up your website by generating and serving resized images for your content area depending on content width
Using Singleton Classes for WordPress Plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Using the singleton pattern to disallow multiple instantiation of your class based plugin
JavaScript and WordPress – The Definitive Guide
Brian Krogsgard
A plain-English look at using JavaScript in WordPress, enqueuing scripts with dependencies, and preventing JavaScript conflicts.
