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WordPress at Scale

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Brian Krogsgard
The team at Pantheon has made a nice resource that doubles as smart marketing for a developer focused hosting product. WordPress at Scale is a website that aims to educate and provide resources to developers wishing to, well, scale WordPress.…

Learning JavaScript, Deeply is a great…

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Learning JavaScript, Deeply is a great post by Remkus de Vries that offers a ten week plan for doing just as his title states. As for how not to learn, Remkus advises, "not try to learn JavaScript from bits of…

Themes, users, and the WordPress REST API

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Brian Krogsgard

Post Status member and Envatoan (is that what they call them?) Stephen Cronin writes a balanced piece on the potential downside if the REST API becomes the way to do things for theming. Community support is a cornerstone of WordPress’…

Intro to Underscore.js templates

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Brian Krogsgard

Justin Tadlock has an excellent tutorial for Underscore.js templating beginners. I'm guessing that's a lot of us. The Underscore.js library has been in WordPress for many versions now. However, it’s next to impossible to find good tutorials that walk you…

Extending the WordPress REST API

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Brian Krogsgard

Jeff Gould has written part two in his series on utilizing the WordPress REST API. Again, he delivers, as this is one of the most in-depth code heavy tutorials I've seen. In part two, Jeff describes how to add fields…

Where to learn WordPress development

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Brian Krogsgard
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

Learn WordPress from Bob Dunn

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Brian Krogsgard
Bob Dunn has released his latest project, many months in the making. BobWPTutorials is a tutorial and course website powered by WooCommerce, and offers tutorials on general WordPress usage, as well as Genesis and WooThemes products. He already boasts 48 published…

Sources of growth for a membership site

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Brian Krogsgard
Shawn Hesketh runs WP101, a WordPress tutorials membership site. He recently received a question about how he markets his site, and his answer is thorough and insightful, and definitely worth a read for anyone trying to grow their product or…

PHP globals and classes for new programmers

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

How to set up your plugin development environment

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Brian Krogsgard
A lot of tutorials just jump in and miss the fundamentals. I believe that without the fundamentals, you might as well not even start. Think of this post as an upfront investment – a down payment if you will. Getting…

More Bad Tutorials

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Curtis McHale
It always gets my goat when people leave off escaping in tutorials just to make it easier. The code you just provided will be copied and pasted and then you are the cause of bad code out there.
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