WordPress News

Customer happiness reports

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

I've admired WooThemes' openness as long as I've been reading their blog. Last week, Adii Pienaar laid out exactly how WooTheme's transition to ZenDesk support has gone, including their number of tickets, response times, and more. As a WooThemes customer…

Theme independence among potential BuddyPress 1.7 features

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

WordPress News

Ryan Imel posted on WPCandy about some features in the works for BuddyPress 1.7. Of them, theme independence catches my eye the most. It would certainly be nice to have a relatively simple path for enabling any theme for BuddyPress.…

Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

Development

Eric Mann describes why you shouldn't dequeue WordPress' version of jQuery. Unless you have a really, really good reason to use a CDN for jQuery (you probably don't), then stick with what WordPress ships with. You'll likely save yourself many…

WordPress Timthumb Alternative

Travis Northcutt

February 4, 2013

Development

An alternative to Timthumb that includes back compat for <3.5, and a separate function for WP 3.5+.

Post Meta Inspector: easily see all meta data in a post meta box

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2013

WordPress News

This is a super useful utility plugin if you work a lot with post meta data. Automattic and Daniel Bachhuber have released Post Meta Inspector, a plugin that shows all meta data for a post in a post meta box.…

Multi Page Navigation with Gravity Forms

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2013

WordPress News

David Smith is a developer for Rocket Genius, the makers of Gravity Forms. And on the side, he runs the Gravity Wiz website for adding additional functionality to Gravity Forms by way of "Perks," plus general tips and tutorials. His…

Sticky posts in custom post type archives

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress has post sticky option only for posts post type. So if you are going to create a new custom post type, there is no native way for adding support for sticky posts. With this trick, you can show your…

Force CSS changes to bust browser cache

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

This is an old one, but still a great solution for busting browser cache any time you update your theme stylesheet. Mark Jaquith shows how to easily wrap your stylesheet with filemtime, a PHP function that returns the time a…

Creating the Legalities of a WordPress Business

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

Business

In the process of setting up a legal entity for our upcoming business launch, I reached out to several people seeking advice on how best to create our business structure. I’m really grateful for the willingness of everyone to share…

Adding JS to the WordPress admin, and keeping it on one page

Curtis McHale

February 1, 2013

Development

A tutorial to show you how to enqueue JS in the WordPress admin on one page only.

Encouraging Community Collaboration and Development

Pippin Williamson

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

A topic that has intrigued me a lot over the last few months is how to build up a strong community of contributors to projects. Are their aspects that help encourage community members to collaborate? Aspects that discourage it?

Easy Digital Downloads v1.4.3 Released

Pippin Williamson

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

Version 1.4.3 has been released! This is primarily a maintenance release but does also contain several new features. The main new feature that will be of significant importance to users is the automatic catch of refunds processed through PayPal.

What do y’all think about a periodic job thread?

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

There's a lot of moving and shaking in the WordPress community. Would a jobs thread here be beneficial? As a place where job seekers could post that they're looking for work and / or available employers could post that they…

Non-Breaking Business

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

Business

This morning, I listened to the latest episode of the Non-Breaking Space podcast. Non-Breaking space is one of my favorites, and this episode they had on Gene Crawford and Carl Smith to talk about web businesses. It's not directly related…

Community Advice for WP Beginners

John Saddington

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

Siobhan McKeown shares an epic post on Smashing Magazine on how beginners can get ramped up quickly in WordPress. The community wisdom is truly highlighted here.