The case against Singletons in WordPress
Brady Vercher
Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.
Restaurant Engine Year 1: Learning Lessons the Hard Way
Brian Krogsgard
Outstanding post by Brian Casel on his experience running Restaurant Engine this last year. This is a must read for anyone running (or thinking about running) a business with WordPress, especially SaaS ones. I absolutely love openness and honesty like…
How to debug your work in WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
As a hosting company, I beg and plead with you, the developer of sites, to do some basic sanity checks, before you upload your code, for the world to experience. Your clients will thank you. So will our monitoring systems.
Grandchild themes – solving a problem to a bad architecture
Brian Krogsgard
Little bit of an opinionated title, I know. Mark Barnes does a nice job describing how to create grandchild themes by way of a plugin, in order to alter child theme functionality in themes like Genesis. The problem is Genesis…
How to Win & Work with Big Clients
Brian Krogsgard
Tom and Joe from Human Made Limited share experience and tips on how to win and work with big [good] clients, mostly learned through making every mistake in the book whilst going from being freelancers working on small sites to…
500 Site Reviews and Lessons Learned by Joost de Valk
Brian Krogsgard
Joost de Valk wrote a great post that highlights a real achievement of 500 site reviews; but he also gives some great tips on how people can make their sites better with relatively simple steps. Definitely worth a read to…
How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”
Brian Krogsgard
Mark Jaquith explains how he built "Have Baby. Need Stuff!", a baby gear site built on WordPress and inspired by "The Wirecutter"
Building a Better Image Widget with the New WordPress Media Manager
Brian Krogsgard
A thorough post about how you can leverage the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager in a widget.
Contributing To WordPress using GitHub
Brian Krogsgard
Although the official WordPress source code still lives in a Subversion repository, you can contribute patches without having to touch svn
Remove the WordPress Admin Bar – But Leave it for Admins
Curtis McHale
Shows how to remove the WordPress admin bar. Then wraps it in a current_user_can check to keep it around for site admins.
Automattically Blackballed
Chris Lema
Sounds like selling in the Envato marketplace and participating at WordCamps is getting folks stuck in a hard place.
Got big time PHP and WordPress chops? You’re wanted.
Brian Krogsgard
Gil Rutkowski has a new gig heading up web development for a pretty big team. He's a well respected and seasoned WordPress guy, so the PHP and WP gig he tweeted about this morning may be enticing for some of…
WordPress Plugin Troubleshooting Flowchart
Brian Krogsgard
A little flowchart describing how, given plugin X, you could determine if it was conflicting with some other plugin Y, or with your theme. This is a nice helper from Scribu.
WPBillings – an upcoming CRM tool on WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Remi Corson has a landing page up for WPBillings, a free CRM tool for WordPress he's building. Looks very interesting. You can go to the site to sign up for when they launch. Looks like another great "WordPress as an…
How to orderby the include parameter of get_terms()
Brian Krogsgard
Nice example of filtering get_terms() to orderby the include parameter. It's also demonstrating with a WooCommerce example, which is handy.
Theme Wrappers
Brian Krogsgard
You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!
