In the latest release of Jetpack, you can assign a constant in wp-config in order to develop locally. This is long due and welcome news. There are also some nice new filters for refining which widgets and shortcodes are made available in Jetpack.
I stumbled on the “Tozny API” recently which instead of passwords presents a functionality similar to “email me an access code” from Slack. The purpose of which is to help either verify email addresses or promote password-free authentication for your users. It’s an interesting concept although i’m not sure if it’s going to be accepted…
The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development for this update. If you haven’t ever used the WordPress apps, now is a good time…
A friend and former coworker of mine really likes the word “webmaster”. Because it’s a hilarious word. It suggests that this person has control over the web in general, which is pretty pretentious. However, traditional webmasters have long had a place in the workplace. Today, I stumbled upon a conversation between Marc Andreesson, of the…
Linking posts to each other is quite a hassle in WordPress, especially if they are of different post types. Sub Posts enables you to setup these links, link the posts and display them on your website in minutes.
Another great post from Zack Tollman about caching and WordPress.
Tom McFarlin discusses various methods for instantiating WordPress plugins. There are some good comments as well.
