Taxonomy vs Post Meta Queries
Curtis McHale
Ever wonder exactly why taxonomy queries are faster than post meta?
Filtering Classes on wp_nav_menu
Curtis McHale
Today we look at making a WordPress page appear to be the ancestor of a single custom post type by filtering the classes on wp_nav_menu.
Live workshop: How to build a WordPress plugin with Tom McFarlin
Curtis McHale
I'm sure we can expect nothing but awesome from Tom.
Vagrant and Custom Domains with WordPress
Curtis McHale
Here we learn to do your own custom WordPress install in Varrying Vagrant Vagrants on a custom domain for a client site.
Working with WordPress and Vagrant – Basics
Curtis McHale
An overview of using Varrying Vagrant Vagrants as your local development environment.
Level up your WordPress development skills
Curtis McHale
Great talk by Tom about how to take your WordPress development skills to the next level.
How to Programmatically Populate a WordPress Template
Curtis McHale
I haven't had to do this yet, but seems to be a pretty easy thing to do with Tom's code.
Towards a partial page templating system in WordPress
Curtis McHale
Here's a great article by Zack Tollman exploring ideas around caching parts of pages for views in WordPress.
Handling recurring content in WordPress theme development
Brian Krogsgard
Recurring content is present in just about all WordPress themes, and handling it properly is important to keep themes lean, extensible and scalable. So what’s the right approach for handling recurring content in different situations?
Review an intentionally vulnerable plugin
paul de wouters
This is a really nice idea. It's a coding challenge where you have to audit a plugin for security flaws. A chance to learn more about best practices and getting your code reviewed by core developers.
Different ways of instantiating WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Many different ways exist to structure WordPress plugins. You can use singletons, global references to your plugin class instance, static classes, namespaces and so forth. In this article, many different ways are outlined in the context of extensibility.
Eliminating ambiguity in WordPress page template file naming
Brian Krogsgard
The template hierarchy is a big part of the structure of WordPress themes, but as its parts were added over time, it now has some strange and confusing file naming. For example, why are so many people naming their templates…
Tools for building better WordPress projects
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin outlines the tools the 8Bit team uses when developing projects on WordPress. There are a number of good debugging tools and plugins listed here.
Developing a WordPress site on a live url
Brian Krogsgard
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some…
WhatIsSoSlow: Measure the speed of filters and actions
Brian Krogsgard
Alex Mills has a handy little class that will allow you to measure the speed of the various filters and actions running on your pageloads.
Lazy loading images, explained
Brian Krogsgard
I love posts like this. I've never given Lazy loading of images much thought. Devin Price has explained what lazy loading actually does, how it's best handled in WordPress, and gives his recommendation on how to best use this sort…
