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PHP globals and classes for new programmers

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

Justin Sternberg has written a nice and thorough post geared toward beginning programmers to cover common PHP methodologies. I definitely recommend reading this for those that may recognize certain techniques, but don't really fully understand them. I love beginner tutorials…

The future of WPDB

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

mysql_*() methods are deprecated in PHP 5.5 and it's time for WordPress move on and enable support for PDO or MySQLi. In this article I describe what I played with and what the next steps are for getting a better…

The Theme Foundry releases a Backbone powered theme

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The folks from The Theme Foundry have released a new theme called Collections, which is a post formats centric, Backbone powered WordPress theme. They emailed me to let me know they were wrapping up a Backbone powered theme, and I…

7 reasons WordPress made PHP popular

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

Development

This site isn't very easy on the eyes, but I think that point 7 is a a valuable lesson, "Pragmatism is better than purism." I don't agree with the entire article, but I really like that one statement.

A guide to using Composer in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2013

Development

Andrey Savchenko, known as Rarst in the WordPress community, has built a great guide to using Composer in WordPress. Composer is a dependency management tool for PHP projects. It brings a ton of power to the table, and this resource…

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

Brian Krogsgard

July 4, 2013

WordPress News

Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are…

Lessons for plugin developers from Joost de Valk

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk published to his blog this morning about a mistake he made with an update to his WordPress SEO plugin. He used a feature in PHP that isn't supported in PHP 5.2, and therefore his plugin didn't work…

What’s your WordPress job title?

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Job titles can be confusing. If you've ever tried to hire a WordPress consultant to build you a website, or you've had inquiries about your services, you've likely encountered some level of confusion trying to decipher what an individual (or…

If you’re serious

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Mike Little's fateful comment on Matt Mullenweg's blog. A short history of…

Google wants you to host your WordPress site in their cloud

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

HostingWordPress News

Google has added PHP to their App Engine services, enabling PHP based apps to be run in their cloud service. I saw various tweets and articles that noted they specifically made sure WordPress would be able to perform in the…

Prefork pre-loads PHP apps (like WordPress) before serving requests

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic has released a pretty fancy PHP class called Prefork, that enables pre-loading capability to large PHP apps, such as WordPress. This makes it so that WordPress doesn't have to completely reload itself every time you load the page. It's…

Change all WordPress site URLs the easy way

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

Development

When moving your WordPress website, the site's URL can be saved in the database in many places. Find the easy way to change all of the URLs using a PHP script to search and replace the database for your development…

Force CSS changes to bust browser cache

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

This is an old one, but still a great solution for busting browser cache any time you update your theme stylesheet. Mark Jaquith shows how to easily wrap your stylesheet with filemtime, a PHP function that returns the time a…

When to use the alternative PHP syntax

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

Development

Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it's appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a…

Why you shouldn’t use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Development

Mike Schinkel posted on his HardcoreWP blog about why you should never use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins. It's a great read. He goes in depth about why, versus just telling you not to. This is how beginner level…

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

Development

WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project's largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project's code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.

PHP globals and classes for new programmers

The future of WPDB

The Theme Foundry releases a Backbone powered theme

7 reasons WordPress made PHP popular

A guide to using Composer in WordPress

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

Lessons for plugin developers from Joost de Valk

What’s your WordPress job title?

If you’re serious

Google wants you to host your WordPress site in their cloud

Prefork pre-loads PHP apps (like WordPress) before serving requests

Change all WordPress site URLs the easy way

Force CSS changes to bust browser cache

When to use the alternative PHP syntax

Why you shouldn’t use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

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