Passing Arguments to Callback Functions

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onMarch 11, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

This post explores methods which can be used to pass arguments to callback functions without resorting to global variables. Additional input is welcome.

jQuery in the UK

ByDan Knauss August 30, 2022August 30, 2022

Getting rid of jQuery on gov.uk Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK: The main disadvantage of using jQuery is that it has to be included in the page assets, which can slow down how quickly a site loads. GOV.UK’s pages vary in size, but the homepage is around 246 kB – 32 kB (13%) of…

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7 reasons WordPress made PHP popular

ByBrian Krogsgard August 5, 2013January 31, 2015

This site isn’t very easy on the eyes, but I think that point 7 is a a valuable lesson, “Pragmatism is better than purism.” I don’t agree with the entire article, but I really like that one statement.

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Potential roadmap for taxonomy meta and post relationships

ByBrian Krogsgard July 28, 2013January 31, 2015

Andrew Nacin has written a thorough post discussing many of the challenges for implementing taxonomy metadata in WordPress core and a potential roadmap for doing so. He also highlights how we may be able to achieve post to post relationships with alterations to the database schema. No promises are offered, but he assures that if…

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WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

ByDan Knauss September 28, 2022September 29, 2022

Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.

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Design and Development News for the Week of November 7

ByJonathan Bossenger November 11, 2022November 12, 2022

A new way to keep up with that fast-moving project we all rely on, PHP. • Making wordpress/wordpress-develop usable in GitHub Codespaces. • Help count WordPress contributors and sponsors • Directory Serve is our cool tool of the week — a way to serve files to and from your phone.