Matt Gibbs, the original creator of the popular Pods Framework, has launched his latest project: FacetWP. FacetWP is a commercial plugin to offer faceted search capability for WordPress. Faceted search, if you’re unfamiliar, is an advanced search technique: A technique for accessing information organized according to a faceted classification system, allowing users to explore a collection of…
Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard are starting a brand new WordPress podcast specifically about development, for developers, called Apply Filters. First, they get an A+ for the name. My own site title may hint as to why I like such things. Pippin and Brad both are experienced developers with proven products. Pippin is founder of…
Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check out this plugin wordcloud – what stands out amongst the rest? With so many plugins…
I work a decent amount with Multisite. Not a ton, but maybe on about 10% of the websites I build. There’s sometimes confusion at work as to what’s a good use for Multisite and what is not. I also see this in the greater WordPress community. Let’s discuss what some common issues are, and how…
Let’s pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won’t hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn’t make it premium at all. Nevertheless, the marketing term came and it stuck, and almost…
iThemes has just released Exchange on the WordPress plugin repository. They’ve been working for some time their new WordPress eCommerce plugin. They opened up a beta for some users about a month ago. A few days ago, I checked it out for the first time. I was late on trying the beta, and I found the…
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 being followed by authors. This is an enormous undertaking, and there has already been an…
I ran across the Styles plugin today, thanks to a tweet from Brady Vercher. I was intrigued because Brady said, “I really think this plugin could be the standard for easily customizing themes.” That’s quite a statement. But after installing Styles and playing with it a little bit, I can definitely see it being a…
WYSIJA. A play on WYSIWYG, WYSIJA stands for “What You Send Is Just Awesome.” Yeah, it’s tough to remember. But once you check it out, this plugin is hard to forget. The team of seven people behind WYSIJA is from all over the world; and their plugin has steadily grown over the last year to…
If you’re like most of the internet, you probably didn’t update your Twitter feeds embedded on your site to comply with Twitter’s V1.1 API. Well, their V1.0 API fully deprecated about a week ago, and a ton of Twitter WordPressplugins broke with it. Jason Bobich has your back though. He just created Tweeple, a WordPress…
iThemes announced this morning that they are entering the eCommerce landscape with a new product called Exchange. Based on their announcement post, it seems the product will be a classical physical goods eCommerce product, in the same realm as WooCommerce, WP E-Commerce, and Shopp. edit: as clarified in the comments, it actually appears their first…
Based on customer feedback, we’ve removed the top-level menu item and added submenu items under Plugins and Appearance. Good move? Bad move?
I took part in a chat yesterday to discuss some of the nitty gritty details around splitting code between plugins and themes. Aaron Holbrook kindly shepherded us together and hosted. There were ten or so of us in and out, and I personally learned a good bit from what Otto Wood and Pippin Williamson had…
A listing of 5 plugins that stood out for me in 2012, and that I use every day while developing themes and plugins for WordPress.
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