Here are some commonly unknown WordPress functions I’ve come across when developing with WordPress. A few little gems that I wish I discovered long before I needed them.
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.
Brian Coords has been working on WP-Notify which is described on its GitHub repo as: A feature plugin for WordPress, which aims to create a new (better) way to manage and deliver notifications to the relevant audience.
I wonder how much WordPress is an outlier in even the PHP universe for tolerating the idea that it’s “punishment” and “unfair” to be held to a standard with mandatory testing for code that’s admitted to the WordPress.org repo for use on potentially 40% of the web. That’s how a number of developers responded to…
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…
That was the question on an episode of Woo DevChat with Ebonie Butler, Lisa Canini, Robbie Adair, and Kathy Zant. It’s an interesting to compare their views and experiences with the ones shared by Zach Stepek, Till Krüss, and Carl Alexander while discussing the same question on an earlier episode.
The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that’s all that’s necessary, but to generate a nonce that really is used only once, Stephen Harris details a method to…
