Theme Wrappers

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onJanuary 22, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!

Development

Nonces that are used only once

ByBrady Vercher May 31, 2013January 31, 2015

The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that’s all that’s necessary, but to generate a nonce that really is used only once, Stephen Harris details a method to…

Development

WordPress Gear: useful developer tools

ByBrian Krogsgard January 28, 2013January 31, 2015

WordPress Gear is a “compendium” of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp

Business | Development | Notes | Tech

A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance

ByDan Knauss September 20, 2022September 20, 2022

RescueTime, which I’ve used since they started up, often has pretty good articles on time management and such. This is one. Most good habits are about maintenance.

Design | Development

WordPress responsive navigation options

ByBrian Krogsgard August 30, 2013August 30, 2013

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 methods for handling the “toggle” method for responsive navigation in WordPress. Common responsive navigation patterns…

Business | Development | Notes

A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

ByDan Knauss July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

Here’s an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic’s mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack: Why don’t we support a single API in our apps? Wouldn’t that make our lives…