The Washington Post has a feature called The Grid that tracks realtime events in, well, a grid. It’s a combination of tweets and other things they find interesting, and in this profile, they show how they used WordPress and other tools to create this unique platform. It’s an honest and interesting case study. h/t Devin Price
Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress: If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then it might make sense for them to focus on the frontend of the site while…
Tom McFarlin is always blogging fantastic things. This is another great one. He calls for developers to be more abstract in their WordPress code; in other words, to separate what goes where in a more logical, easier to repeat manner. With good examples of un-abstracted and abstracted code, he shows why abstraction in programming is…
Creating custom URL rewrites in WordPress, using an easy-to-read, step-by-step tutorial.
Here are some commonly unknown WordPress functions I’ve come across when developing with WordPress. A few little gems that I wish I discovered long before I needed them.
Understanding how to alter the main query and how to create custom queries in WordPress are two essentials for WordPress developers. You should familiarize yourself with a few things right away: What is the WP_Query class, including creating new custom queries for secondary loops Never use query_posts() Alter queries with the pre_get_posts hook You also…
Shows how to remove the WordPress admin bar. Then wraps it in a current_user_can check to keep it around for site admins.
