The dire state of WordPress
Travis Northcutt
A (reasoned) criticism of the architecture of WordPress, and how it should be fixed.
WordPress development with Vagrant
Brian Krogsgard
Jeremy Felt is the Director of Web Engineering at 10up, and he's written on his personal blog about evolving your WordPress development by using Vagrant. It's a great read if you are new or unaware to the practice.
Change all WordPress site URLs the easy way
Brian Krogsgard
When moving your WordPress website, the site's URL can be saved in the database in many places. Find the easy way to change all of the URLs using a PHP script to search and replace the database for your development…
Trigger plugin activation on new site in a WordPress Network
Brian Krogsgard
Trigger plugin activation function on new WordPress Network site.
Passing Arguments to Callback Functions
Brian Krogsgard
This post explores methods which can be used to pass arguments to callback functions without resorting to global variables. Additional input is welcome.
Creating a widget
Brian Krogsgard
Widgets are one of WordPress's most powerful features. They are very easy to create but are often created in a wrong way. This posts explains the how to create a basic widget the right way.
Automate Git to SVN with Scatter
Brian Krogsgard
Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It's called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He's also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way…
A case against shortcodes
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin has written a thoughtful article on WordPress shortcodes, and why he generally doesn't like them as a method for enabling custom content functionality in WordPress. I left my own thoughts in the comments of his post.
Never load jQuery from Google in themes and plugins
Brian Krogsgard
If Pippin reminds us to not dequeue the WordPress version of jQuery in plugins and themes enough, maybe people will eventually listen. This goes for custom client sites too, in my opinion. For the minimal savings, it's just too much…
Introduction to pluggable functions
Brian Krogsgard
Rakhitha Nimesh has done a nice job on wpTuts+ with his introduction to using pluggable functions in WordPress. I personally tend to prefer filters for adding flexibility in my projects, but there are times where a custom pluggable function is…
Build an app with WordPress
paul de wouters
A very detailed step by step tutorial on building a to do list app with WordPress using javascript and Ajax.
How to Include the jQuery Datepicker in WordPress
Curtis McHale
If you've wanted to know how to add the jQuery datepicker to your site, here it is.
WordPress user registration options with pros and cons
Brian Krogsgard
Cristian Antohe has published a pretty nice walkthrough of various user registration plugin options with pros and cons for each. Personally, I use Gravity Forms User Registration module, but it's nice to see what else is out there.
Automate WooCommerce order status changes
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lema has posted a nice tip for automatically changing WooCommerce order status when some orders a product. It's especially useful in his context, as he sells digital downloads, and there's no waiting period between processing and completing the order.
Dependency injection for WordPress plugins
paul de wouters
Mike Toppa gives us a guide for using dependency injection to organize code in our plugins.
Write code every day
Brian Krogsgard
Pippin has written a nice post about why we should be writing code every single day. I love this, in theory :)
