Tech

Automated WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

June 8, 2013

Want to stop wasting time manually linting, concatenation, and minifying style and script files in your WordPress theme or plugin? Then you should start using Grunt - a cool tool that does it all for you. 10up has even released…

WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin has written another useful post on the wpTuts+ blog. He reminds us to stick to the WordPress coding standards for our naming conventions and function arguments. As you start working with other developers on projects, or see your…

The Mojo Marketplace integrates with Bluehost cPanel

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2013

HostingWordPress News

The Mojo team has teased work they've collaborated on with Bluehost that will offer Mojo products within the cPanel dashboard of Bluehost accounts. The integration includes single sign-on between a Bluehost account and Mojo, as well as one-click buying from…

DreamHost targets managed WordPress hosts with DreamPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2013

HostingWordPress News

DreamHost has announced a "highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service" using managed VPS instances on "tuned-for-WordPress" servers. They're also including automatic updates and some other WordPress specific features. It seems they are pretty clearly going after the growing market that so far…

Nonces that are used only once

Brady Vercher

May 31, 2013

Development

The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that's all that's necessary, but to…

Case study: Building a WordPress powered web app

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

BusinessDevelopment

Josh Kadis has written up a summary of his experience at Quartz (an excellent online business news magazine) using WordPress to build a web app. Their considerations for choosing to build their own API versus use Jetpack's, using the settings…

Notify users when they haven’t completed a form

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

Development

This tutorial goes through how to create a shortcode that allows you to create a notice for people who haven’t yet completed a specific Gravity Form on your site.

Without a plugin? The functions.php myth.

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

Development

There's a wide spread digital myth in the WordPress microverse about the functions.php file and that it's a code snippet container. This post tries to explain why people are misusing this file, shows alternatives and explains step by step how…

Logging wp_mail during development with WP_Logging

Curtis McHale

May 24, 2013

Development

It sucks when you accidentally email all your users from a development site. Well, let's get all output from wp_mail logged during development.

Google wants you to host your WordPress site in their cloud

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

HostingWordPress News

Google has added PHP to their App Engine services, enabling PHP based apps to be run in their cloud service. I saw various tweets and articles that noted they specifically made sure WordPress would be able to perform in the…

Coda plugins for WordPress

Curtis McHale

May 15, 2013

Development

If you use Coda, here are a few good plugins that make WordPress development just a bit better.

Watch those hook priorities

Curtis McHale

May 15, 2013

Development

Knowing hook priorities is important. Here is a simple example to show you why it's important.

Taxonomy vs Post Meta Queries

Curtis McHale

May 14, 2013

Development

Ever wonder exactly why taxonomy queries are faster than post meta?

Filtering Classes on wp_nav_menu

Curtis McHale

May 14, 2013

Development

Today we look at making a WordPress page appear to be the ancestor of a single custom post type by filtering the classes on wp_nav_menu.

Ludicrous speed: WordPress caching with Redis

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2013

Hosting

WordPress, loaded through Nginx is fast. Placing a Redis-powered page cache in front of WordPress is even faster. How much faster? Pages are returned in < 10ms.