WordPress News

Theme Mentor

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2013

Mario Peshev has reviewed a lot of themes for the WordPress theme review team. So he's created a complimentary plugin called Theme Mentor, to assist theme reviewers (and theme makers) in accounting for various things that the theme check plugin…

Child theme support in theme guidelines

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2013

WordPress News

Chip Bennett has been working on a section of the theme review guidelines to cover child theme support.

WP Shindig – all WordPress events at a glance

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

The folks at Modern Tribe have created a nice little demo of their Events Calendar Pro plugin, with a helpful twist. WP Shindig is a community calendar of all WordPress events across the world, that happens to use their plugin. This…

WordAds, explained

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

The Daily Post on WordPress.com has a post explaining more about the WordAds system on WordPress.com. WordAds is a managed ads system Automattic created for the platform, so bloggers can monetize their blogs. It's relevant, as traditional advertisers like Google…

Write Simple CSS in Plugins

Pippin Williamson

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

One of the philosophies of plugin development that I believe in very strongly is that CSS should be kept simple and easy to override.

WPLift got a big facelift

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WPLift is a popular blog about WordPress. Oli Dale launched their second design iteration this morning. It's a whole new scheme, and they've included new plugin and theme repositories that will be interesting to see how they're used. It's very…

WordPress.com theme guide resource

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

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.