Development

Zach Schnackel gives an example of an interesting use case for WordPress. He wants access to some WordPress functions, but doesn't really want to use the WordPress theming system or load most of WordPress itself.

This episode modifies the ICS calendar feeds so that we can accept an author parameter and send only the posts that match the author provided.

Jon Brown has a very nice post up on his blog with some tips for better local development with WordPress. There are a lot of ways to go about this, but I like the way Jon organizes things. h/t Ben…

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.

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.…

Another great post from Zack Tollman about caching and WordPress.

The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that's all that's necessary, but to…

This tutorial goes through how to create a shortcode that allows you to create a notice for people who haven’t yet completed a specific Gravity Form on your site.

There's a wide spread digital myth in the WordPress microverse about the functions.php file and that it's a code snippet container. This post tries to explain why people are misusing this file, shows alternatives and explains step by step how…

It sucks when you accidentally email all your users from a development site. Well, let's get all output from wp_mail logged during development.

If you use Coda, here are a few good plugins that make WordPress development just a bit better.

Knowing hook priorities is important. Here is a simple example to show you why it's important.