Towards a partial page templating system in WordPress

ByCurtis McHale Posted onApril 30, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

Here's a great article by Zack Tollman exploring ideas around caching parts of pages for views in WordPress.

WooCommerce Function of the Week: wc_get_customer_last_order

ByRodolfo Melogli March 17, 2022June 3, 2022

With wc_get_customer_last_order you can support a winback campaign to reach out to customers who haven’t placed orders recently.

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Typekit WP Editor Styles

ByBrian Krogsgard January 21, 2013January 31, 2015

A pretty simple solution for being able to load the Typekit script, in the WordPress admin, for use in editor-style.css.

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How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

ByBrian Krogsgard September 30, 2013January 31, 2015

This is a great flash talk by Andrew Nacin, where he discusses the decision making process for evolving WordPress while maintaining backward compatibility. Included are some explanations of the struggles with terms, term meta, and more. This was part of an event at The New York Times, where Scott Taylor also did an interesting talk.

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What is Code?

ByBrian Krogsgard June 12, 2015June 12, 2015

“What is code?” Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I’d tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

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Filter existing shortcodes in WordPress 3.6

ByBrian Krogsgard July 25, 2013January 31, 2015

Here’s a great post with a working example of the new shortcode_atts{$shortcode} filter available in WordPress 3.6 that allows developers to filter an existing shortcode’s parameters. I need stuff like this all the time. The only catch is that the shortcode itself needs to support the new shortcode parameter, so you may have to pester the developer…