WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg on the internet as the fifth estate

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2013

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

January 25, 2013

Development

tl;dr - put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!

Reset

Austin Passy

January 25, 2013

Development

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

January 25, 2013

Development

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

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 25, 2013

Development

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

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

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.

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

Development

WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project's largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project's code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.

Ugh. The “advanced” guide to SEO for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

I know these kinds of tutorials are everywhere. But I saw this one tonight, on a website that (I think) is held in fairly high regard in SEO / marketing land. And I just wanted to cry reading this chapter…

WordPress 3.5.1

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

WordPress 3.5.1 is out. Some bug fixes, security fixes, and even a couple usability tweaks of the media manager. Go update. No reason not to do so immediately for minor updates.

We need better abstraction in programming with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin is always blogging fantastic things. This is another great one. He calls for developers to be more abstract in their WordPress code; in other words, to separate what goes where in a more logical, easier to repeat manner.…

Simperium joins Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

WordPress News

Simperium, makers of iOS note app Simplenote as well as a fairly powerful syncing API, has been acquired by WordPress.com parent company Automattic.

Create Better Code with GenerateWP

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

Development

A quick and easy way to generate the required code for Sidebars, Menus, Custom Post Types, and a few other elements you'll likely need for your theme and/or plugin. With the visual tips/help, it makes coding these areas a breeze!

A Comprehensive Guide to Yoast’s WordPress SEO Plugin

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

WordPress News

A thorough guide to the many features of Yoast's SEO plugin for WordPress.

Akismet now requires a WordPress.com account

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

WordPress News

The Akismet blog announced this morning that Akismet accounts will now require a WordPress.com sign-in. They already required an Akismet login, but now it's integrated directly with WordPress.com. There are some checks Akistmet is doing for people that didn't have…

Test your kerning skills with the Kern Type game

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

Design

This is just for fun. My coworker introduced it to me yesterday. A great practice for anyone that toys with the frontend, and a good opportunity to showoff for experienced typography nerds. Move the letters left and right to properly…