WordPress Gear: useful developer tools
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress Gear is a "compendium" of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp
It’s the information, stupid
Brian Krogsgard
That's why people go to websites. My colleague, David Hickox, hits the nail on the head. Sliders are the latest craze, but, "they’re just the latest in a long line of misguided client fixations aimed at producing excitement and engagement…
How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms
Brian Krogsgard
Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.
Nevermind
Brian Krogsgard
"Nevermind". A human, friendly example of nice messaging in a web interface. I love stuff like this. Also, I started reading this blog tonight because Tina Roth Eisenberg, the site's owner, did an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the Big Web…
Designer vs Developer: be the unicorn
Brian Krogsgard
I wish I could've seen this presentation by my fellow Birmingham cohort, Sara Cannon. The deck alone has great advice. Sara breaks down the barriers and self-assigned exclusions between designers and developers. Key: we all solve problems in the middle.…
Batch Resizing 45,000 images in WordPress (via the command line)
Ben May
I wasn't able to find anything on the web about the problems faced with trying to regenerate the thumbnails for this many images at one time, so I solved my problem, and thought I'd blog what I did!
Who Owns WordPress? Or How to Make Money in a GPL Universe
Brian Krogsgard
In light of the recent WordPress GPL debate it is worth taking a look at who really owns WordPress, how this is impacted by the GPL, and how you can make money while still staying through to the open principles…
Popular 1 Pixel Out audio player vulnerability
Brian Krogsgard
I read today that the popular 1 Pixel Out player has a vulnerability. The "Audio Player" plugin has been removed from the WordPress repository, and the PowerPress plugin (a very popular podcasting plugin) has removed the 1 Pixel Out player…
Outside the WordPress bubble, what people are saying about it and other CMSs
Brian Krogsgard
I don't know about you, but I am usually within a pretty "Yay WordPress!" bubble. It's a goal of mine to branch out more and see what I can learn from other systems, and perhaps use what I learn to…
Matt Mullenweg on the internet as the fifth estate
Brian Krogsgard
Matt nicely describes how the internet has managed to triumph in the modern world as an underdog. Today, an individual blogger's voice can be heard by hundreds of millions of people near-instantaneously. Bloggers' cumulative voices can spark change in government,…
If you store WordPress code on Github think about your wp-config.php
Travis Northcutt
tl;dr - put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!
Reset
Austin Passy
Run this query to reset all posts featured images to the first uploaded image in that post.
A week of visiting websites pretending to be blind
Brian Krogsgard
As developers, we are still not doing enough to make the web accessible to all types of users. In this story, David Ball spends a week pretending to be blind on the internet. He learned some interesting things, but in…
What WordPress.org support forum tools can be made better?
Brian Krogsgard
There's some very healthy discussion going on in the Make WordPress Support blog, where Mike Epstein (Ipstenu) asks: What support forum tools can be made better? Be sure to see her list of known ideas (like reply-by-email), check out the…
Custom Post Types in WordPress themes: Best practice?
Tom McFarlin
Matt explores the various ways to include various custom post types in themes and asks what's considered the best practice and why. Great opportunity for discussion in the comments.
Advanced Custom Fields Add-Ons: Important Announcement
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress sent an email to Elliot Condon asking to "remove all ‘license-key features’ from the repository immediately." The post outlines what will happen to ACF plugins over the next few weeks.
