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WP Stack – a Toolkit For Creating Professional WordPress Deployments

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

WP Stack is a professional WordPress deployment tool written and maintained by Mark Jaquith. It assumes you're already using a number of professional development techniques. Specifically, WP Stacks aims to help you scale WordPress out to multiple servers.

The Zen of WP Development

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this WordPress.tv episode, Daniel Bachhuber - a Code Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP team - presents what it means to be "one with the code" of WordPress development for providing elegant solutions.

Why does the slug work in a page URL, but not the ID?

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

Here's a very simple question to a potentially confusing problem relating to how WordPress relates ID's, slugs, and tags when dealing with URLs.

How to detect a WordPress URL without doing a full HTTP GET

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

In this WordPress Stack Exchange question and answer, Jeff Atwood - co-founder of Stack Overflow - asks an interesting question in relation to WordPress and WP Super Cache and Rarst provides the answer as to why.

WordPress Performance Optimzation

Brian Krogsgard

February 8, 2013

Hosting

Performance matters because a positive (fast) user experience facilitates all goals a publisher or application developer might have. WordPress, like most applications, has numerous moving parts that must be considered when trying to scale.

Using WordPress for application development

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin weighs in on the topic of WordPress as a tool for application development in his latest post on WP Daily.

Avoid the pains of pagination

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2013

Design

UX Movement explores various painpoints of pagination. A good reminder for those of us creating pagination in WordPress themes and client sites. Are we giving it enough thought?

Getting a menu name in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2013

Development

I had the hardest time figuring out how to return the saved name for a given menu. After spending way too much time in Google, I stumbled across this simple function that does the trick.

Five questions with theme developer Mike McAlister

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Erik Ford has a nice Q&A with Mike McAlister on his blog. Both Erik and Mike are valuable members of the commercial theme community. This is a great opportunity to hear how Mike got into making WordPress themes, and how…

Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

Development

Eric Mann describes why you shouldn't dequeue WordPress' version of jQuery. Unless you have a really, really good reason to use a CDN for jQuery (you probably don't), then stick with what WordPress ships with. You'll likely save yourself many…

WordPress Timthumb Alternative

Travis Northcutt

February 4, 2013

Development

An alternative to Timthumb that includes back compat for <3.5, and a separate function for WP 3.5+.

Adding JS to the WordPress admin, and keeping it on one page

Curtis McHale

February 1, 2013

Development

A tutorial to show you how to enqueue JS in the WordPress admin on one page only.

Understanding MySQL in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

Development

Scott Taylor goes into great detail describing the use of MySQL in WordPress. Put your focus hat on to read this one.

Dre Armeda and Brad Williams tease “DradCast”

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

It seems that Dre Armeda and Brad Williams are destined to return to the internet-airwaves soon, with what appears to be a podcast called, "DradCast." Drad is the nickname that Brad and Dre have given themselves as a tag team…

When to use the alternative PHP syntax

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

Development

Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it's appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a…

Loading WordPress language files the right way

Tom McFarlin

January 31, 2013

Development

A solid post by Geert that provides a correct way to include language files in your plugins as well as a great explanation as to why this approach is best.

WP Stack – a Toolkit For Creating Professional WordPress Deployments

The Zen of WP Development

Why does the slug work in a page URL, but not the ID?

How to detect a WordPress URL without doing a full HTTP GET

WordPress Performance Optimzation

Using WordPress for application development

Avoid the pains of pagination

Getting a menu name in WordPress

Five questions with theme developer Mike McAlister

Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

WordPress Timthumb Alternative

Adding JS to the WordPress admin, and keeping it on one page

Understanding MySQL in WordPress

Dre Armeda and Brad Williams tease “DradCast”

When to use the alternative PHP syntax

Loading WordPress language files the right way

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