WordPress 3.9, “Smith”, has just been released. It is named after James Oscar “Jimmy” Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike Schroder. I will have Andrew and Mike, plus three additional contributors on a live hangout…
Zach Brown has a nice post up on how to set up microcaching with Nginx combined with Batcache to handle big spikes of traffic (or just to maximize efficiency and enable running a site on low resources). Zach explains that while Batcache is a great solution and performs very well, it still requires loading PHP…
PhpStorm is a full-featured IDE that has somewhat of a cult following amongst the WordPress developers I follow. Made by JetBrains, it’s notable for being lighter weight than most IDEs, web development specific (though not just PHP as the name implies), and very customizable. Today, they’ve announced official support for managing WordPress projects. According to the…
WordPress Multisite is a great feature of WordPress. But it’s not always the right feature.
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…
Gabriel Koen describes ten reasons why he believes WordPress is a better starting point for projects than many advanced PHP developers would think. Some of the points are even known pain-points in WordPress, but as he notes, “even a half-assed solution pre-built beats building your own half-assed solution that you’ll never get around to finishing.”
I’ve had an opportunity to play with Barley for WordPress, an inline editor plugin. Barley is a two-sided product. Barley is a hosted, PHP based CMS, and Barley for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that extends the hosted Barley editing experience to WordPress publishers. My first thought when seeing Barley for WordPress was that it…
Elliott Richmond is in the second year of his advent calendar for WordPress code snippets. You can sign up on the site for the 2013 version and he’ll email you the snippets every day. I enjoyed this last year, as the tips were quick and easy to digest. If you’re looking for a little extra…
ZippyKid is a managed WordPress host that’s been around around three and a half years. They have grown their business consistently since their launch in May 2010, and today have a number of high profile blogs and corporate profiles as part of their client portfolio. Vid Luther, founder of ZippyKid, has been a PHP consultant…
WordPress core is debating a change to always require braces, even for one line, in PHP if statements. Looks like the +1’s are winning. That’s a good thing in my opinion. Is this the most detail oriented thing I’ve ever posted? Probably.
AppPresser is a foundation for people to use WordPress based tools to build mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms. AppPresser is a collaborative effort between Scott Bolinger, Brad Williams, Brian Messenlehner, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson. You may notice that Brad, Brian, and Lisa are partners of WebDevStudios, but AppPresser is a separate entity from…
Kurt Payne is a PHP developer, WordPress core contributor, and GoDaddy employee. In this Code Poet interview, he talks about what he’s learned and what he works on. I’ve used the GoDaddy P3 Profiler plugin he’s the main author of, and it’s really great. He sees a whole bunch of WordPress installs, so his insight…
Getting rewrite rules and Regex right is an often painful task in WordPress. Conflict solving, commenting the expressions, et cetera is something most people want to avoid. To be honest, every modern PHP or JS framework nowadays has a very simple approach on this topic. Finally we got something like that for WordPress as well:…
If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily. According to the announcement post, here are the technical bits: VIP Quickstart is a mix of Vagrant, Puppet,…
If you don’t already follow NextDraft, then this is your lucky day. NextDraft is a newsletter — or a column really — from Dave Pell that contains “the day’s most fascinating news.” And it is great. NextDraft is the only thing in the non-WordPress world that I make sure I read every day. From politics,…
Our code in WordPress plugins and themes should follow some basic standards. Here are a few simple tips to make your code more aligned with the standards of the core project. Prefix everything Nacin said it best. Prefix everything. Prefix your functions. Prefix your classes. Prefix anything that has even a little bit of a…
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