WordPress 3.7 RC1 has been released, which means the official release of WordPress 3.7 is near. Auto-updates have been refined a bit, and based on some tweets I saw from Andrew Nacin and reports of Beta testing, they are very reliable. Even still there are contingencies in place to take care of failed updates. Go test.
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…
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8Bit, the maker of the Standard Theme, is shutting down. The four founders of 8Bit are all significantly involved in various parts of the large WordPress ecosystem. You can follow John, Tom, Jared, and Chris going forward. The Standard Theme forums will be open another thirty days. It hasn’t been long since another project of…
There’s been talk lately about Automattic enforcing trademarks for the term “Woo”, by sending takedown notices to websites utilizing the term in their domains and offering services or products associated with WooCommerce. Automattic has been sending letters, primarily to sites toward sites like WooGPL, who were selling access to WooCommerce products, and apparently confusing customers…
If you’re using Caldera Forms, there’s a security update out for it (although the WordPress security team is pushing an auto update).
Konstantin Kovshenin brought up a good point on his blog, that we should be avoiding do_shortcode() if we can easily use the callback directly. Using the callback function directly prevents WordPress from invoking the shortcode regex that parses shortcode strings. This definitely makes sense when using shortcodes within the theme or plugin they are created…
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The thing that most of all I have always liked about wordpress is the speed with which updates occur and the easiness of the upgrading process, all automatic.