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Cool tools and tech talk for designers, developers, and engineers working with WordPress.

Different ways of instantiating WordPress plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
Many different ways exist to structure WordPress plugins. You can use singletons, global references to your plugin class instance, static classes, namespaces and so forth. In this article, many different ways are outlined in the context of extensibility.

Responsive deliverables

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Brian Krogsgard
Dave Rupert, of Shop Talk Show and Paravel fame, shares his ideas on creating deliverables for responsive design. I think it could be rephrased to just creating deliverables. He advocates breaking the website functionality into modules, independent from page structure.…

VIP Developer Workshop

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress.com VIP is hosting another developer workshop this year, offering two+ days of hardcore WordPress training from Automattic's VIP team. It's a great opportunity, and comes with a hefty price tag. It'll set you back $3600, but does including hotel…

Things learned designing for retina

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a very practical post where the author outlines what they learned they need to account for to handle retina devices. Simple, practical, and to the point. Are theme designers out there accounted for high resolution screens yet?

Wptuts+ Resources

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Brian Krogsgard
Wptuts+ has created a WordPress resources page. It includes a variety of categories, including development tools, hosting recommendations, and reference websites. Many of the links are affiliates.

Developing a WordPress site on a live url

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Brian Krogsgard
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some…

A great UI is invisible

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a really inspiring post on Codrops. It talks about solving problems in UI, not just adding features.

Lazy loading images, explained

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Brian Krogsgard
I love posts like this. I've never given Lazy loading of images much thought. Devin Price has explained what lazy loading actually does, how it's best handled in WordPress, and gives his recommendation on how to best use this sort…

WordPress development with Vagrant

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Brian Krogsgard
Jeremy Felt is the Director of Web Engineering at 10up, and he's written on his personal blog about evolving your WordPress development by using Vagrant. It's a great read if you are new or unaware to the practice.

Change all WordPress site URLs the easy way

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Brian Krogsgard
When moving your WordPress website, the site's URL can be saved in the database in many places. Find the easy way to change all of the URLs using a PHP script to search and replace the database for your development…
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