Adding Custom Meta to WordPress Taxonomies
Curtis McHale
Part 1 of 3 where we show you how to add custom meta fields to a WordPress taxonomy.
Properly instantiating WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin discusses various methods for instantiating WordPress plugins. There are some good comments as well.
Set up unit tests for your plugin
Brian Krogsgard
The wp-cli (command line interface) project has really been gaining traction. Scribu shows in this post how to easily setup unit tests for WordPress plugins using wp-cli.
Useful WordPress utility functions
Brian Krogsgard
Paul shares some of the WordPress utility functions he's collected and uses often.
A review of Professional WordPress Design and Development
Brian Krogsgard
David Bisset did a vey nice review of Professional WordPress Design and Development, a book about WordPress written by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern. I have my copy sitting next to me, and have made it through a…
Comprehensive guide to WordPress metaboxes
Brian Krogsgard
Alex Mansfield has published a very comprehensive overview of creating custom meta boxes in WordPress. It doesn't cover every type of field, but if you aren't using a class or other tool for building metaboxes, this will come in very…
Classing up your queries
Brian Krogsgard
I remember reading this before I started Post Status. It needs to be noted here just how useful this post on classing up your queries is. Brad gives examples for making it easier to extend WP_Query in your projects.
A Process For Successfully Migrating a WordPress Website
Tom McFarlin
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
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
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
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
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.
Using WordPress for application development
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin weighs in on the topic of WordPress as a tool for application development in his latest post on WP Daily.
Getting a menu name in WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
I had the hardest time figuring out how to return the saved name for a given menu. After spending way too much time in Google, I stumbled across this simple function that does the trick.
Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery
Brian Krogsgard
Eric Mann describes why you shouldn't dequeue WordPress' version of jQuery. Unless you have a really, really good reason to use a CDN for jQuery (you probably don't), then stick with what WordPress ships with. You'll likely save yourself many…
WordPress Timthumb Alternative
Travis Northcutt
An alternative to Timthumb that includes back compat for <3.5, and a separate function for WP 3.5+.
