The Four-Day WordPress Work Week
Who’s doing the four-day work week in WordPress? • What good sources for professional development have you found? • Getting your implementation intentions right.
Devin Price relates his experience launching an…
Devin Price relates his experience launching an extension in the WooCommerce Marketplace, and he shares some initial sales numbers. Devin’s conclusion: “I have a few additional extension ideas but am hesitant about investing the time until I see how this first one does.”
Devin Price has a helpful snippet…
Devin Price has a helpful snippet for accessing an external API through the server, so that the data can be used with with client-side JavaScript. His sample shows how to get shipping rates from an external service, for use in a custom WordPress JSON endpoint.
CodeInWP did an analysis of over one…
CodeInWP did an analysis of over one hundred WordPress theme shops and ranked them, based on their Alexa positions. Alexa isn’t the best source for true marketplace benchmarks (Syed Balkhi shared why a couple years ago), but it is at least within the same genre, and one of the better open comparisons you can find. I always liked…
Devin Price has released a “Better…
Devin Price has released a “Better Blockquotes” plugin which provides an way to easily add citations to quotes using the WordPress editor. I love little plugins like this, and citations in blockquotes are super annoying currently.
Devin Price shows how to extend…
Devin Price shows how to extend background image support in the customizer.
Devin Price shares how you can…
Devin Price shares how you can track Jetpack shares in Google Analytics.
Custom links in the Customizer
Speaking of the Customizer, Devin Price has a short and sweet tutorial on inserting a custom text link into the customizer. As he notes, it can be useful for links to documentation, upsells, etc.
Slurped data from the WordPress theme repo
Aaron Jorbin created a script to download every theme from the WordPress theme repository, and Devin Price has used the script to slurp some interesting data from those themes. For instance, he guesses that ~17% of themes utilize Underscores as a starter theme, and that around 24% of themes use the customizer. He also backs…
Devin Price is the new owner of DevPress
Devin Price is a developer from Austin, Texas and owner of WP Theming, an excellent WordPress blog. He also hosts his plugins and themes on WP Theming. Devin is the author of the popular Options Framework plugin, the Portfolio Post Type plugin, the Portfolio Press theme, and the Visual theme. He also sells commercial versions…
DevPress sold for $14,000 on Flippa
Update: Devin Price is the new owner. DevPress has a storied four year history, and today it’s been sold on Flippa for a mere $14,000. What started as a partnership between four well known WordPress community members was eventually reduced to a one-man operation, under the guidance of Tung Do. Tung, Justin Tadlock, Patrick Daly,…
Where to learn WordPress development
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I’d share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered around development — mostly theme development. I was introduced to WordPress in 2008 and by…
How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults
The theme customizer feature was introduced in WordPress 3.4, released June 2012. Since then, it’s been a great tool that’s allowed theme developers to move away from complex options managers to a simpler, more logical interface where many settings can even be live previewed. Over the last couple of years, there have been a few…
How the Washington Post used WordPress to power The Grid
The Washington Post has a feature called The Grid that tracks realtime events in, well, a grid. It’s a combination of tweets and other things they find interesting, and in this profile, they show how they used WordPress and other tools to create this unique platform. It’s an honest and interesting case study. h/t Devin…
Lazy loading images, explained
I love posts like this. I’ve never given Lazy loading of images much thought. Devin Price has explained what lazy loading actually does, how it’s best handled in WordPress, and gives his recommendation on how to best use this sort of functionality. This is exactly how a short form tutorial should be.
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