In reaction to recent criticism about a lack of rules or best practices for WordPress theme development, I've compiled an overview of resources to help developers create themes according to best practices.
Templatic has written a really informative post describing their processes for developing commercial themes. They talk about doing market studies, creating mockups, design and development, project management, quality assurance, documentation, and more.
Getting rid of jQuery on gov.uk Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK: The main disadvantage of using jQuery is that it has to be included in the page assets, which can slow down how quickly a site loads. GOV.UK’s pages vary in size, but the homepage is around 246 kB – 32 kB (13%) of…
This is a super useful utility plugin if you work a lot with post meta data. Automattic and Daniel Bachhuber have released Post Meta Inspector, a plugin that shows all meta data for a post in a post meta box. I’m looking forward to this one. Related: I wonder if print_r will miss me. h/t…
What if WordPress, growing as an operating system for the web, spawns distributions and spins, like Linux? What do nine years of Jetpack teach us about Automattic and WordPress — the project and the dot-com? Rethinking how we think about SaaS, hosting, and the WordPress ecosystem…
A pretty simple solution for being able to load the Typekit script, in the WordPress admin, for use in editor-style.css.
Samuel “Otto” Wood describes the prepare() function, and why it matters. For anyone playing with SQL in their work, you should make sure you understand these basics that Otto quite clearly explains.
