Amy Hendrix has released a nice integration of Sass for the Underscores theme by Automattic. Underscores, or _s, has gotten a lot of traction as an easy to fork base theme, and it’s maintained by some truly great theme wranglers at Automattic. This Sass element to drop on top of _s is a handy extension…

I was reading the new WP Daily site earlier today and noticed in their footer that they’re hosted by “Eve.” Intrigued, I clicked it to see a simple landing page, but it’s clearly branded as a future 8Bit product. I heard them mention that they’d thought about hosting in one of their Hello Dolly podcasts,…

Today wpXtreme 1.0.0 beta3, a plugin to enhance WordPress user experience, was released. More then 250 fixes, lots of improvements and 3 new fundamental features.

Here’s a nice post from WordPress community member James Dalman. He give you all the right tips on how to fail as a freelancer. He’s right too, people are doing it every day. If you’re struggling as a freelancer, or thinking about starting freelancing, be sure to read this so you’ll know what to not do.

Here’s a pair of sister sites I’ve never heard of, but they look to have some pretty useful content. They’re for people that want to learn to make themes (on YinPress) and to sell them and market their business (on YangPress). PS, the logo links to both sites. Kind of confusing at first.

A nice intro post for a series on front end techniques from Pete Schuster. He talks the basics of debugging JavaScript with console.log. A good read.

After reading Jake Caputo’s post that went nuts, Matt’s comments there, and Collis’ reply on WP Daily, I’m left feeling lost. If individuals want to stay involved in the community, but also want to sell themes, what do they do? Are they forced to sell only on their own sites, and forego a large audience…

Envato founder Collis Ta’eed gives his take on the ThemeForest – GPL – WordCamp fiasco.

Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.

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 Brian showcases here.

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.

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 is a parent theme, and their child themes do too much. A framework should be…

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 running an agency working on big sites for big clients.

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 make sure you are taking these things into account. And sidenote: 500 reviews at a…

Mark Jaquith explains how he built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”, a baby gear site built on WordPress and inspired by “The Wirecutter”

A thorough post about how you can leverage the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager in a widget.

Although the official WordPress source code still lives in a Subversion repository, you can contribute patches without having to touch svn

Shows how to remove the WordPress admin bar. Then wraps it in a current_user_can check to keep it around for site admins.

Sounds like selling in the Envato marketplace and participating at WordCamps is getting folks stuck in a hard place.

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 you. Full time in Chicago or New York.

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.

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 app platform” opportunity here. h/t David Bisset

Nice example of filtering get_terms() to orderby the include parameter. It’s also demonstrating with a WooCommerce example, which is handy.

When it comes to page caching and WordPress, there are a number of options out there. Nginx caching, Varnish, Batcache, W3TC Page Caching, W

FooBox has been updated to version 1.3.5.1. This new version comes with a slew of feature updates, a few bug fixes, and a new license level.

You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!

Hammy speeds up your website by generating and serving resized images for your content area depending on content width

A great post about how WooThemes creates opportunities for businesses, enabling them to create opportunities for their customers as well.

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

Creating custom URL rewrites in WordPress, using an easy-to-read, step-by-step tutorial.

A plain-English look at using JavaScript in WordPress, enqueuing scripts with dependencies, and preventing JavaScript conflicts.

Using the singleton pattern to disallow multiple instantiation of your class based plugin

Let’s explore the hook removal problem for plugins using a PHP class as a code wrapper

A look back at how far WordPress has come since version 0.71-gold, how WordPress development has evolved, and where we should be heading.

A listing of 5 plugins that stood out for me in 2012, and that I use every day while developing themes and plugins for WordPress.

Once you understand how to use classes you’ll find no reason to use global functions for filter and action hooks ever again

Learning to develop a WordPress plugin doesn’t have to be difficult; you can start small and grow your skills over time

Typically, Singletons are a really bad idea. But they make sense in WordPress for several reasons, let’s take a deeper look.

An iThemes series which talks about everything you need to know to start and run a WordPress meetup.

Mandrill is a way for apps to send transactional email made by Mailchimp. Set up WordPress to use Mandrill instead of sendmail

I contributed to WPCandy for about two years. I hope Ryan gets it back in full swing. I’m not surprised people are asking questions though.

A pretty simple solution for being able to load the Typekit script, in the WordPress admin, for use in editor-style.css.

Excellent post on Erik’s experience redesigning his WordPress blog in one week. He had to make decisions. Decisions are hard. I can relate.

Anyone involved in WordPress meetups will want to read this update from Jen Mylo.

This is an excellent guide. Hopefully more and more theme developers will ditch options panels for the customizer.

A feature on WP Beginner of a plugin to check back periodically for posts that missed their scheduled publish date.

Joe Hoyle, of Human Made, has posted a nice tutorial on the WPRealm blog about rewrite rules. Be prepared for your brain to melt.

Creates mouse click heatmaps for WordPress websites.

WooThemes has been working on this one for a long time. Integrates with WooCommerce, and I really like that it’s a plugin and not a theme.

Jeff Chandler talks about burnout and the struggle for WordPress news sites to make money. Interesting timing.

Keeping track of the everything going on in the WordPress community is hard. But it doesn’t have to be.