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Function names you shouldn’t use

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Brian Krogsgard
Kailey Lampert has started a list of class and function names that should not be used in plugins and themes. These come from popular tutorials, common unprefixed names, or other methods she's run across at various times. Rule of thumb?…

Things learned designing for retina

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a very practical post where the author outlines what they learned they need to account for to handle retina devices. Simple, practical, and to the point. Are theme designers out there accounted for high resolution screens yet?

Toggle WordPress toolbar on hover

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Brian Krogsgard
Ever been logged in to WordPress but want to see your site without the toolbar? I've got a project with some weird positioning right now where such a feature is nice. You could just open the site in a different…

SublPress: WordPress actions in Sublime Text

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Brian Krogsgard
This is an interesting package for Sublime Text that brings actions in the WordPress dashboard to your text editor. Though, to me, it seems if you are going to do it this way, why not just go straight to the…

Wptuts+ Resources

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Brian Krogsgard
Wptuts+ has created a WordPress resources page. It includes a variety of categories, including development tools, hosting recommendations, and reference websites. Many of the links are affiliates.

Developing a WordPress site on a live url

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Brian Krogsgard
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some…

WordPress’ unhappiest user

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a fun story of a WordPress meetup where the author was a bit starstruck by Matt Mullenweg, and came away with a great quote that makes me happy about WordPress' future.

Yoast… themes?

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Brian Krogsgard
Joost de Valk posted this morning that they are trying ditch their clients, and want to focus on their own products more. This includes plans to start selling WordPress themes. They are focusing on the Genesis child theme market. It'll…

Pay-What-You-Want Theme Experiment: Empty Spaces

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Brian Krogsgard
I released a WordPress theme on my site recently, and I'm running a little experiment with it -- it's available as "pay what you want", with no minimum price. I'd appreciate if you took a moment to check it out!…

WordPress Theme Development Best Practices

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Brian Krogsgard
In reaction to recent criticism about a lack of rules or best practices for WordPress theme development, I've compiled an overview of resources to help developers create themes according to best practices.

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