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It’s been two and a half…

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It's been two and a half months in the making: GlotPress 2.5 is out. It's a release focused on tweaks and enhancements primarily. It does include items such as case-sensitive translation searches, support for Java properties files, new and updated…

Restrict Content Pro 2.5 is an all new take on the product

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Brian Krogsgard

Restrict Content Pro has been around for a long time, but for a few years it was the third leg on Pippin Williamson and friends' product landscape. It's always been a solid, but limited product. It's still limited, but their…

WordPress plugin directory redesign: great potential, great power

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Brian Krogsgard

Sometimes I wonder if those who work on WordPress.org website projects realize just how powerful their decisions are. I think they do, though I'm also confident the direct commercial impacts of their decisions will never be their first consideration. The…

Envato is incorporating in the US

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Brian Krogsgard
Envato is expanding operations to the United States, with an official incorporation. Many large companies do this, where they are registered in their home country, and again in large business centers. The US is a huge business center for Envato…

Custom post types in v2 of the WordPress REST API

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Brian Krogsgard

Scott Bolinger has a very useful post that describes changes between v1 and v2 of the WordPress REST API in regard to custom post types. In v1, custom post types were made available by default, whereas now they need to…

The case for term meta, and a roadmap for making it happen

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Brian Krogsgard

Term meta is one of the most requested developer features for WordPress. When architecting a site's data, most of us have likely had a desire for term meta to add additional text fields, term images, term ordering, or some other data…

Hybrid Core 3.0 makes sweeping changes

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Brian Krogsgard

Hybrid Core 3.0, released today by Justin Tadlock, makes some big changes to the popular drop-in theme framework. Justin has never been afraid to release new stuff in Hybrid Core, and he's not afraid to take stuff out either. Many…

Herbert is a framework for building plugins

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Brian Krogsgard

Herbert is a fancy MVC framework for building WordPress plugins. If you long for a different way than how most WordPress plugins are structured, Herbert may really interest you. I have had a lot of fun looking through the documentation, the example…

Custom WP-API authentication

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Brian Krogsgard

Scott Bolinger shares a custom WP-API authentication method on the AppPresser blog. If you’ve worked with the API before, you may have come across the issue of authentication. The API can allow you to create a post, get information about…

The WordPress REST API

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Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.
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