Takeaways from interviewing 13 great WordPress developers
After interviewing thirteen WordPress developers for a book on getting up and running with WordPress development, I have some key takeaways that I’d like to share with you.
Herbert is a framework for building plugins
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 plugin, and another plugin that was built with Herbert. Herbert has ways for doing all…
Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins
A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.
Custom WP-API authentication
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 users, and lots more. For that reason, it has to make sure you are allowed…
The WordPress REST API
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.
Hexagon: a French language theme shop with an American / French partnership
Devin Price and Fx Benard are partnering in a new theme venture called Hexagon. It’s a French language theme shop. Devin owns DevPress already, and he got to know Fx when Fx translated some of his themes into French. As the two began to collaborate, the idea for a French language theme shop came about and they started working…
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WordPress and the new European Union VAT (Value-Added Tax) rules
The new European VAT rules rolled out at the beginning of January, and they really complicate selling digital goods to Europeans. I have done a ton of research and reading, and this is the most straightforward post I could make from it to try and wrap up the state of the EU VAT rules for WordPress business owners and eCommerce shops.
The state of handling custom metadata in WordPress
WordPress has a table for handling metadata of posts. Quite simply, it’s a good place to store “stuff” that relates to a post, but doesn’t belong in one of the standard parts of the posts table. Metadata can be nearly anything. And it can be displayed however a theme wants to display it. You can…
WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.
WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you’ll find. That it’s an eCommerce plugin — built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible — is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin is. It’s been under development for eight years, and is nearing 3 million downloads on…
WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce
WooThemes has been working on their Bookings extension for quite a while. They had the idea for Bookings before WooCommerce was WooCommerce, and had some form of the product even in December 2011. They wanted to make sure they did it right. Currently, there are few options for bookings and appointment management for WordPress website…
How to deactivate WordPress Multisite properly
WordPress Multisite is a great feature of WordPress. But it’s not always the right feature.
A free documentation theme for WordPress
Tareq Hasan has created a free theme called weDocs to help folks manage documentation within WordPress. The theme is on Github and the demo is quite nice. This could be a great boilerplate for those of you looking to integrate documentation into your own website.
Documentation marketing: how opening up docs turned into 60% of the sales funnel at WooThemes
Warren Holmes is the Chief Information Officer at WooThemes. He tells a story on his personal blog how WooThemes opened up their documentation site from behind the paywall, and now that site is the referrer for 60% of their revenue. It’s pretty amazing what a happy accident that must be. I’ve always been an advocate…
Explicit browser support
Browser support is not a minor thing to consider when building web projects. Whether developing a website for a client or building a product, one of the most important things to clarify right away is what level of browser support is to be expected. Browser support should be an explicitly defined item, even for small…
Get to know the new functions in WordPress 3.7
The fabulous documentation site, QueryPosts, has you covered with the new functions added to WordPress 3.7. Take a look around and jump right to the source to get familiar with the new things to play with in your next project. You can also get to know the new features in WordPress 3.7 in my release…
What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”
WordPress 3.7, “Basie”, has just been released. It’s been named in honor of Count Basie. The WordPress 3.7 development cycle is the quickest turnaround between major versions of WordPress ever. You may not notice a whole lot of sexy new (visible) features in this version, but the release is a huge win for the platform….
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