How to Write a Basic WordPress Plugin

Andrew Nacin has written a thorough post discussing many of the challenges for implementing taxonomy metadata in WordPress core and a potential roadmap for doing so. He also highlights how we may be able to achieve post to post relationships with alterations to the database schema. No promises are offered, but he assures that if…

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 to get out of that trap. Written for the developer as well as for the…

CrowdFavorite has officially released a Ruby gem that they’ve been using for some time that allows for deploying WordPress sites with Capistrano. They talk about how it’s different from Mark Jaquith’s WP-Stack, which you may have heard of, in the announcement post. Also included in the release was a Ruby gem called Steps, that produces…