Adding JS to the WordPress admin, and keeping it on one page
Curtis McHale
A tutorial to show you how to enqueue JS in the WordPress admin on one page only.
Understanding MySQL in WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Taylor goes into great detail describing the use of MySQL in WordPress. Put your focus hat on to read this one.
When to use the alternative PHP syntax
Brian Krogsgard
Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it's appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a…
Loading WordPress language files the right way
Tom McFarlin
A solid post by Geert that provides a correct way to include language files in your plugins as well as a great explanation as to why this approach is best.
Why you shouldn’t use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Mike Schinkel posted on his HardcoreWP blog about why you should never use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins. It's a great read. He goes in depth about why, versus just telling you not to. This is how beginner level…
Developing WordPress plugins with boilerplates
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin, doing what Tom McFarlin does over on wpTuts+. Go read about why boilerplates matter. I personally use versions of both of his settings and plugin boilerplates, which you can get from the links in his post. Go read…
Introduction to the WordPress rewrite API
Brian Krogsgard
The rewrite API can be confusing (to me at least). Remi Corson walks you through it on the WP Explorer blog.
Introduction to WordPress Filters
Brian Krogsgard
This short guide, aimed at beginner/intermediate developers, introduces WordPress filters, explains their basic use, and provides some examples on the topic of cheese sticks.
WordPress Gear: useful developer tools
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress Gear is a "compendium" of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp
How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms
Brian Krogsgard
Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.
Batch Resizing 45,000 images in WordPress (via the command line)
Ben May
I wasn't able to find anything on the web about the problems faced with trying to regenerate the thumbnails for this many images at one time, so I solved my problem, and thought I'd blog what I did!
If you store WordPress code on Github think about your wp-config.php
Travis Northcutt
tl;dr - put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!
Reset
Austin Passy
Run this query to reset all posts featured images to the first uploaded image in that post.
A week of visiting websites pretending to be blind
Brian Krogsgard
As developers, we are still not doing enough to make the web accessible to all types of users. In this story, David Ball spends a week pretending to be blind on the internet. He learned some interesting things, but in…
Custom Post Types in WordPress themes: Best practice?
Tom McFarlin
Matt explores the various ways to include various custom post types in themes and asks what's considered the best practice and why. Great opportunity for discussion in the comments.
Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project's largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project's code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.
