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How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

This is a great flash talk by Andrew Nacin, where he discusses the decision making process for evolving WordPress while maintaining backward compatibility. Included are some explanations of the struggles with terms, term meta, and more. This was part of…

Sustainable value in WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

September 5, 2013

Development

Matty Cohen has written a very nice post in Torque Mag about sustaining value in WordPress products. I especially like what he notes on debunking the myth that features are equivalent to value. And as he notes, harmony between two…

WordPress responsive navigation options

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2013

DesignDevelopment

Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost's collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I'll cover two…

Wordless brings Haml, Sass, Compass, and Coffeescript to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2013

Development

All the buzzwords, right? Wordless is a plugin and theme structure to help you integrate Haml, Sass, Compass, and Coffeescript into your WordPress web development workflow. Check out the Github for more info. (h/t David Bisset)

WordPress and JavaScript with Backbone

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2013

Development

I recently ran across this excellent slide deck from K. Adam White on evolving your JavaScript with BackBone.js. It's a really great deck that I highly recommend you fully digest. It's simple enough for people not yet well versed in…

Get started with the Heartbeat API

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

Development

WordPress 3.6 introduced the Heartbeat API. It's an exciting API that opens up a whole bunch of possibilities for various core features or plugins, or even themes, to utilize. Pippin Williamson gives a nice introduction and example use case for…

A guide to pluggable functions

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

Development

Curtis McHale has written a nice three part series on WP Lift offering a guide to pluggable functions in WordPress. For those unaware, pluggable functions make it easy for other developers to override your functions in their own plugins and…

WordPress functions you may not have heard of

Elliott Stocks

August 15, 2013

Development

Here are some commonly unknown WordPress functions I've come across when developing with WordPress. A few little gems that I wish I discovered long before I needed them.

PHP globals and classes for new programmers

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

Development

Justin Sternberg has written a nice and thorough post geared toward beginning programmers to cover common PHP methodologies. I definitely recommend reading this for those that may recognize certain techniques, but don't really fully understand them. I love beginner tutorials…

On being a developer friendly developer

Brian Krogsgard

August 8, 2013

Development

Here are a few things I think about when I work on WordPress themes that other developers may encounter down the road. It's good to work in a way that helps those who come after you know what you've done,…

Get started with the WordPress Heartbeat API

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2013

Development

Jason Coleman describes just why the new WordPress Heartbeat API is beneficial, and gives a sample implementation to help get you started.

7 reasons WordPress made PHP popular

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

Development

This site isn't very easy on the eyes, but I think that point 7 is a a valuable lesson, "Pragmatism is better than purism." I don't agree with the entire article, but I really like that one statement.

Modular WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 1, 2013

Development

Matt's vision of future WordPress development (from the SotW) is encapsulated in plugin development. What does that mean for future dev on core APIs? I have one idea on a way that plugin-like functionality could work hand-in-hand with core API…

Tips for developers adopting a legacy WordPress site

Curtis McHale

July 29, 2013

BusinessDevelopment

Greenfield projects are the dream of most of developers. We have no legacy code to deal with. Just a clean WordPress install and whatever tools we decide best accomplish the goals of the client. Unfortunately you’re not always going to…

Potential roadmap for taxonomy meta and post relationships

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2013

Development

Andrew Nacin has written a thorough post discussing many of the challenges for implementing taxonomy metadata in WordPress core and a potential roadmap for doing so. He also highlights how we may be able to achieve post to post relationships…

WordPress, forking, and the road to 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2013

Development

At WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the future of WordPress versions 3.7 and 3.8. I have a specific vision for 3.9 and 4.0 - one that will keep both end users and developers happy. Can we make it happen?

How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

Sustainable value in WordPress products

WordPress responsive navigation options

Wordless brings Haml, Sass, Compass, and Coffeescript to WordPress

WordPress and JavaScript with Backbone

Get started with the Heartbeat API

A guide to pluggable functions

WordPress functions you may not have heard of

PHP globals and classes for new programmers

On being a developer friendly developer

Get started with the WordPress Heartbeat API

7 reasons WordPress made PHP popular

Modular WordPress

Tips for developers adopting a legacy WordPress site

Potential roadmap for taxonomy meta and post relationships

WordPress, forking, and the road to 4.0

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