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Get started with the Heartbeat API

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

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.

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure

mikejolley

August 14, 2013

Security

In this article I talk about the current state of the wordpress.org repository backed up by recent statistics, and give advice on keeping plugins and themes secure during development.

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…

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

Hosting

Ryan Sullivan compared seven popular hosting companies' shared environments for his experiment to see which ones were performing well and which weren't. I love Ryan's views on hosting, and trust his experiment. This is a valuable resource. However, I'd really…

Art direction for publishing with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

One of the most exciting conversations for WordPress 3.8, in my opinion, is around creating content blocks and art direction for editing with WordPress. This is probably the direction core is going to go for handling post formats, and any…

Tidy Repo plans to be a consistent source for reliable plugins

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

DesignWordPress News

It's tough sometimes telling somewhere a good place to find reliable plugins. We have an overload of list posts that list every single plugin doing the same thing; and the repository, while good and also monitored, is just huge. Tidy…

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,…

Thoughts on design patterns in WordPress

Curtis McHale

August 8, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Tom McFarlin has yet another great post talking about design patterns in WordPress. There is a time and place for Object Oriented and Procedural approaches.

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.

The Theme Foundry releases a Backbone powered theme

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The folks from The Theme Foundry have released a new theme called Collections, which is a post formats centric, Backbone powered WordPress theme. They emailed me to let me know they were wrapping up a Backbone powered theme, and I…

How Templatic develops commercial themes

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

BusinessDesign

Templatic has written a really informative post describing their processes for developing commercial themes. They talk about doing market studies, creating mockups, design and development, project management, quality assurance, documentation, and more.

Code should fail nicely

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Web designers tend to be pretty particular about their designs. However, often times, if you watch how end users use a website, it can be surprising when they don't do things how the designer and developer would expect. Perhaps the…

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…

Get started with the Heartbeat API

A guide to pluggable functions

WordPress functions you may not have heard of

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure

PHP globals and classes for new programmers

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

Art direction for publishing with WordPress

Tidy Repo plans to be a consistent source for reliable plugins

On being a developer friendly developer

Thoughts on design patterns in WordPress

Get started with the WordPress Heartbeat API

The Theme Foundry releases a Backbone powered theme

How Templatic develops commercial themes

Code should fail nicely

7 reasons WordPress made PHP popular

Modular WordPress

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