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Microcaching with Nginx

Travis Northcutt

April 15, 2014

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…

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

Development

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…

How to deactivate WordPress Multisite properly

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2014

HostingWordPress News

WordPress Multisite is a great feature of WordPress. But it's not always the right feature.

How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2014

Development

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…

Advanced PHP developer? WordPress is a better starting point for your project than you think.

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2013

Development

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…

Barley for WordPress is a simple and effective inline editor

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2013

HostingWordPress News

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…

WordPress code snippets ’til Christmas

Brian Krogsgard

November 20, 2013

WordPress News

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…

ZippyKid relaunches as Pressable, makes changes to business

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

BusinessHosting

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…

I can haz braces?

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…

AppPresser: A foundation for using WordPress to make mobile apps

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

DesignWordPress News

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…

Interview with Kurt Payne, core contributor, GoDaddy developer

Brian Krogsgard

October 18, 2013

WordPress News

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,…

Rewrite rules made easy

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

Development

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…

Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly

Brian Krogsgard

October 9, 2013

DevelopmentHosting

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…

Dave Pell on building the NextDraft platform

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2013

WordPress News

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…

WordPress code conventions for easy wins

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2013

WordPress News

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…

WordPress responsive navigation options

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2013

DesignDevelopment

Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost's collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I'll cover two…

Microcaching with Nginx

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

How to deactivate WordPress Multisite properly

How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults

Advanced PHP developer? WordPress is a better starting point for your project than you think.

Barley for WordPress is a simple and effective inline editor

WordPress code snippets ’til Christmas

ZippyKid relaunches as Pressable, makes changes to business

I can haz braces?

AppPresser: A foundation for using WordPress to make mobile apps

Interview with Kurt Payne, core contributor, GoDaddy developer

Rewrite rules made easy

Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly

Dave Pell on building the NextDraft platform

WordPress code conventions for easy wins

WordPress responsive navigation options

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