Tech

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…

Here's a great post with a working example of the new shortcode_atts{$shortcode} filter available in WordPress 3.6 that allows developers to filter an existing shortcode's parameters. I need stuff like this all the time. The only catch is that the shortcode itself…

Sven Hofmann has a great guide to the new dashboard icons that are present in the experimental MP6 interface, and how to implement them for custom admin menus in your plugin.

I missed this when it published in March, but Taylor Lovett does a nice job explaining why taxonomy queries tend to be faster than post meta queries in WordPress. So, next time you're trying to decide whether to make some…

I always get excited when Tom McFarlin starts a new series on wpTuts+. His latest is going to take a look at the WordPress HTTP API, and his first post is up with an introduction to wp_remote_get(). Tom is one…