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WordPress.com theme guide resource

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

Michael Fields posted on the theme review team listserve this morning that the WordPress.com Theme Team has created a resource page for theme guidelines. They use this resource for reviewing themes submitted to WordPress.com, but it can be useful to…

A review of Professional WordPress Design and Development

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

Development

David Bisset did a vey nice review of Professional WordPress Design and Development, a book about WordPress written by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern. I have my copy sitting next to me, and have made it through a…

Bug testing theme tips from MintThemes

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

Adam Pickering shares some tips for other theme developers for testing their themes, based on their own experience at MintThemes.

Create your own tournament pools with BracketPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

Scott Hack has released a plugin called BracketPress that allows you to create your own tournament pools. With March Madness just around the corner, this is great! The obvious advantages of a tool like this is that you can make…

Comprehensive guide to WordPress metaboxes

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

Development

Alex Mansfield has published a very comprehensive overview of creating custom meta boxes in WordPress. It doesn't cover every type of field, but if you aren't using a class or other tool for building metaboxes, this will come in very…

Recurring Payments Extension for Easy Digital Downloads

Pippin Williamson

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

The Recurring Payments extension for Easy Digital Downloads has been in the works for quite a few months. Today it is finally released!

“Recently Active” plugins… how recent?

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WP Engineer looks into a fairly trivial, but interesting aspect of WordPress vocabulary. Just how recent of a span of time is WordPress identifying when it lists "Recently Active" plugins?

Why Metro.co.uk chose to go with WordPress.com VIP

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

Here's an interesting and candid blog post on why Metro.co.uk chose to go with WordPress.com's VIP service for their site. I learned a few tidbits about VIP in this one.

Classing up your queries

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

Development

I remember reading this before I started Post Status. It needs to be noted here just how useful this post on classing up your queries is. Brad gives examples for making it easier to extend WP_Query in your projects.

In the Ring with ClassiPress

Curtis McHale

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

A look at the code quality in ClassiPress - the WordPress classifieds theme.

Reddit Question: know of any good WordPress blogs to follow?

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

This Redditer is looking for some WordPress resources. I shared my comments, but many other people did too. Add your own.

Roll a New MAMP WordPress Install Quickly With This Shell Script

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

I wrote a shell script that creates a new WordPress install in MAMP (directory, database, and security keys) based on your input into the prompts and sends you to wp-admin/install.php upon completion. I use it for every project and put…

JSDB.io – a JavaScript library database

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

JSDB.io is a visual database of many, many popular JavaScript libraries. Very useful for theme and plugin developers.

Github workflow for managing WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

Tom McFarlin shares how he uses Github for managing his WP Audio Player plugin.

Dev7Studios release CarouFredSel plugin

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2013

WordPress News

Dev7Studios, the makers of the immensely popular Nivo Slider, recently acquired the CarouFredSel plugin. Today, they released a WordPress plugin for CarouFredsel. I've used CarouFredSel for some time for carousels, as it's a pretty robust script. It's nice to see them come…

How to Leave a “Good” Bad Review

Pippin Williamson

February 11, 2013

WordPress News

Even when leaving bad WordPress plugin reviews, there are ways to do it in a good way. I'd like to talk about how to leave a quality bad review a little.

WordPress.com theme guide resource

A review of Professional WordPress Design and Development

Bug testing theme tips from MintThemes

Create your own tournament pools with BracketPress

Comprehensive guide to WordPress metaboxes

Recurring Payments Extension for Easy Digital Downloads

“Recently Active” plugins… how recent?

Why Metro.co.uk chose to go with WordPress.com VIP

Classing up your queries

In the Ring with ClassiPress

Reddit Question: know of any good WordPress blogs to follow?

Roll a New MAMP WordPress Install Quickly With This Shell Script

JSDB.io – a JavaScript library database

Github workflow for managing WordPress plugins

Dev7Studios release CarouFredSel plugin

How to Leave a “Good” Bad Review

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