Useful WordPress utility functions
Paul shares some of the WordPress utility functions he’s collected and uses often.
Paul shares some of the WordPress utility functions he’s collected and uses often.
We like to say it’s easy to build a website, and to build it on top of WordPress. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But for just about anyone, it can be intimidating when you’re just digging in. You’ve got to learn your ABCs before you can tell a great story. On the web — especially as it gets more complicated — there’s a lot to learn to build and maintain a modern website.
Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!
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 PHP tutorials should be written. I’m really digging Mike’s blog.
As developers, we are still not doing enough to make the web accessible to all types of users. In this story, David Ball spends a week pretending to be blind on the internet. He learned some interesting things, but in short: it sucks. We can do better. Read that post, and check out Dave Rupert’s…
It sucks when you accidentally email all your users from a development site. Well, let’s get all output from wp_mail logged during development.
If we can polish a turd, we can polish our code. Your code doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, it probably won’t be. But it should be clean, documented, organized, and use proper syntax. It should be polished. Polishing your code today will make you a better developer, and you’ll thank yourself when you…