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Many developers would like to replace…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Many developers would like to replace WordPress search completely. Josh Nederveld offers some ideas for improving its performance and scalability. While replacing it does make sense in certain cases, there are times where tweaks might be the wiser course. As Josh puts it, "WordPress search…

If you compose HTML emails, then…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

If you compose HTML emails, then you’ll want to read this post from Chris Coyier that highlights some essential tools, workflows, and APIs that will make your work easier.

I enjoyed this list of “little…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

I enjoyed this list of "little things" that Harry Roberts likes to do with his projects in Git. He makes a habit of hiding whitespace noise, keeping up on each team member's activity, and praising people. Simple but genuine habits like…

There’s been a lot of attention…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

There's been a lot of attention paid to the CSS grid layout, and this seems entirely justified as browser support for it is growing. There are quite a few guides and tutorials out now that will help you get up to…

Mike Epstein has created a WordPress settings…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Mike Epstein has created a WordPress settings page called "Taxonomy Icons". It loads all the public, non-default taxonomies in WordPress and associates them with an icon. Check out how this can help you keep your custom taxonomies organized.

Chassis is a virtual server for…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Chassis is a virtual server for WordPress that's been made available to the public while it's still in the early stages of development. It's an open source community project with commercial support from Human Made. With the Chassis Desktop interface you can…

Derrick Koo of 10up shares his experience…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Derrick Koo of 10up shares his experience making his first code contribution to WordPress. If you have always wanted to contribute but felt intimidated you really should read his post. Derrick shows how it isn't that hard to set up your…

Here’s another excellent post from Chris…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Here's another excellent post from Chris Lema about the importance of knowing yourself and facing your faults, biases, and limitations. Chris says most of the problems he deals with are of his own making, so they are within his control to…

Here’s a nice overview of the…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Here's a nice overview of the changes coming to the WordPress editor in 4.8 from Andrew Ozz. His post includes examples for adding default and custom TinyMCE buttons to the toolbar. If you're wondering why TinyMCE was added to the…

Siobhan McKeown shares some numbers, the…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Siobhan McKeown shares some numbers, the budget, and insights from the last Day of REST event in Boston. Her advice for other WordPress event planners: start small and scale up, differentiate yourself from WordCamps, and don’t skimp on attendee experience.

A useful new plugin from Jesper…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

A useful new plugin from Jesper van Engelen allows you to select all posts in the WordPress admin backend, not just the ones on the current screen. It works on posts, pages, and custom post types.

Matt Mullenweg has published his annual “what’s in…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Matt Mullenweg has published his annual "what's in my bag" blog post, which I always find worthwhile. Reading these posts helps me find out if there's new gear or new ways to use things I already have for my travel bag. This…

Sarah Rosso recently celebrated publishing her…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Sarah Rosso recently celebrated publishing her one millionth word while working at Automattic. She has some great tips like this one: "Sharing and documenting what you know does not result in a lack of job security!"

Manton Reece and Brent Simmons developed…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Manton Reece and Brent Simmons developed JSON Feed, a pragmatic syndication format like RSS and Atom without the XML. Their JSON Feed WP plugin adds a /feed/json URL to your WordPress site.

Also on Github, Felix Arntz offers wp-cache-js…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Also on Github, Felix Arntz offers wp-cache-js — a "JavaScript-based cache solution" for WordPress using the client's local storage or, as a fallback, a simple variable storage.

If you use BuddyPress, check out…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

If you use BuddyPress, check out the BuddyPress Default Data plugin which recently released a new (1.2) version. BPDD will create lots of users, messages, friends, connections, groups, topics, activity items, and profile data. This is very useful for testing, kind…