The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate serves as a foundation and aims to provide a clear and consistent guide for building your WordPress plugins.
The second version includes a number of new additions, features, and improvements many of which have been made by the generous people in the WordPress development community.
What if you want to show hidden information only to “administrators” or “shop managers?” What about displaying a custom “My Account” tab just for logged-in customers?
Eric Mann describes why you shouldn’t dequeue WordPress’ version of jQuery. Unless you have a really, really good reason to use a CDN for jQuery (you probably don’t), then stick with what WordPress ships with. You’ll likely save yourself many headaches. Eric does a nice job explaining why in detail.
Ever wonder exactly why taxonomy queries are faster than post meta?
I thought Jeremy Thomas guide to web design in four minutes was clever, not because of the content, but how it’s presented. I won’t spoil it, so check it out for yourself.
David’s podcast (and video) picks of the week.
Oh man, my worlds are colliding. Dylan Byers writes in Politico, asking why the White House didn’t choose to use WordPress for building HealthCare.gov. Byers notes that some of the states did, and highlights the benefits of WordPress’ (and other CMSs) open-source nature. Byers also interviewed Peter Slutsky, of WordPress.com’s VIP services, on the matter….
