We need better abstraction in programming with WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onJanuary 24, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

Tom McFarlin is always blogging fantastic things. This is another great one. He calls for developers to be more abstract in their WordPress code; in other words, to separate what goes where in a more logical, easier to repeat manner. With good examples of un-abstracted and abstracted code, he shows why abstraction in programming is so beneficial. I've learned this the hard way myself. Kudos to Tom for spreading the good word.

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Getting a menu name in WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard February 5, 2013January 31, 2015

I had the hardest time figuring out how to return the saved name for a given menu. After spending way too much time in Google, I stumbled across this simple function that does the trick.

WooCommerce Function of the Week: get_ip_address

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The get_ip_address function is useful for tracking visitors who aren’t logged in as they move through key pages in your store.

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WordPress user registration options with pros and cons

ByBrian Krogsgard February 26, 2013January 31, 2015

Cristian Antohe has published a pretty nice walkthrough of various user registration plugin options with pros and cons for each. Personally, I use Gravity Forms User Registration module, but it’s nice to see what else is out there.

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When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress

ByDan Knauss September 27, 2022September 27, 2022

Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress: If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then it might make sense for them to focus on the frontend of the site while…

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WordPress capabilities magic with map_meta_cap

ByBrian Krogsgard February 10, 2014January 31, 2015

Mannie Schumpert has done a nice job offering some practical examples using map_meta_cap. Mannie also took all of the examples from Andrew Nacin’s excellent WCSF talk from last year. If you are dealing with roles and permissions, the things from this talk are really important to understand. As he notes, “instead of modifying your database…

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Blogging with a Newsletter

ByDan Knauss August 30, 2022September 3, 2022

It shouldn’t be this complicated… Nice end result though, by using “a potent combination of MDX and MJML.” Josh Comeau explains his workflow from Markdown to static site publishing and an email newsletter. It’s a complex arrangement, but doing it with WordPress is not easy or simple either. Josh writes: Being able to write newsletter…