Notify users when they haven’t completed a form

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onMay 30, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

This tutorial goes through how to create a shortcode that allows you to create a notice for people who haven’t yet completed a specific Gravity Form on your site.

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Initializing Singleton Classes used in WordPress Plugins

ByBrian Krogsgard January 21, 2013January 31, 2015

Should you choose Eager or Lazy initialization for your singleton class based plugin?

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Introduction to pluggable functions

ByBrian Krogsgard March 5, 2013January 31, 2015

Rakhitha Nimesh has done a nice job on wpTuts+ with his introduction to using pluggable functions in WordPress. I personally tend to prefer filters for adding flexibility in my projects, but there are times where a custom pluggable function is just the ticket. Also, a bunch of plugins use them, so it’s good to know…

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Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

ByBrian Krogsgard February 4, 2013January 31, 2015

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 headaches. Eric does a nice job explaining why in detail.

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PHP globals and classes for new programmers

ByBrian Krogsgard August 13, 2013January 31, 2015

Justin Sternberg has written a nice and thorough post geared toward beginning programmers to cover common PHP methodologies. I definitely recommend reading this for those that may recognize certain techniques, but don’t really fully understand them. I love beginner tutorials like this.

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The Zen of WP Development

ByTom McFarlin February 10, 2013January 31, 2015

In this WordPress.tv episode, Daniel Bachhuber – a Code Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP team – presents what it means to be “one with the code” of WordPress development for providing elegant solutions.