Jeremy Felt is the Director of Web Engineering at 10up, and he’s written on his personal blog about evolving your WordPress development by using Vagrant. It’s a great read if you are new or unaware to the practice.
Matt explores the various ways to include various custom post types in themes and asks what’s considered the best practice and why. Great opportunity for discussion in the comments.
In this article, popular WordPress consultant Bill Erickson provides a complete walkthrough of steps used to successfully migrate a WordPress site from one server to another.
How a function that doesn’t do anything can save your life. Well, not really, but close. _n_noop() can be very interesting, especially for APIs in larger plugins.
Joe Hoyle, of Human Made, has posted a nice tutorial on the WPRealm blog about rewrite rules. Be prepared for your brain to melt.
If Pippin reminds us to not dequeue the WordPress version of jQuery in plugins and themes enough, maybe people will eventually listen. This goes for custom client sites too, in my opinion. For the minimal savings, it’s just too much trouble. Just use the WordPress bundled version.
With wc_get_customer_last_order you can support a winback campaign to reach out to customers who haven’t placed orders recently.
