Understanding MySQL in WordPress
Scott Taylor goes into great detail describing the use of MySQL in WordPress. Put your focus hat on to read this one.
When to use the alternative PHP syntax
Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it’s appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a descriptive method for knowing when loops start and stop, because of the endif; visual. His…
Loading WordPress language files the right way
A solid post by Geert that provides a correct way to include language files in your plugins as well as a great explanation as to why this approach is best.
Why you shouldn’t use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins
Mike Schinkel posted on his HardcoreWP blog about why you should never use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins. It’s a great read. He goes in depth about why, versus just telling you not to. This is how beginner level PHP tutorials should be written. I’m really digging Mike’s blog.
Developing WordPress plugins with boilerplates
Tom McFarlin, doing what Tom McFarlin does over on wpTuts+. Go read about why boilerplates matter. I personally use versions of both of his settings and plugin boilerplates, which you can get from the links in his post. Go read it!
Introduction to the WordPress rewrite API
The rewrite API can be confusing (to me at least). Remi Corson walks you through it on the WP Explorer blog.
Introduction to WordPress Filters
This short guide, aimed at beginner/intermediate developers, introduces WordPress filters, explains their basic use, and provides some examples on the topic of cheese sticks.
WordPress Gear: useful developer tools
WordPress Gear is a “compendium” of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp
How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms
Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.
Batch Resizing 45,000 images in WordPress (via the command line)
I wasn’t able to find anything on the web about the problems faced with trying to regenerate the thumbnails for this many images at one time, so I solved my problem, and thought I’d blog what I did!
If you store WordPress code on Github think about your wp-config.php
tl;dr – put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!
Reset
Run this query to reset all posts featured images to the first uploaded image in that post.
A week of visiting websites pretending to be blind
As developers, we are still not doing enough to make the web accessible to all types of users. In this story, David Ball spends a week pretending to be blind on the internet. He learned some interesting things, but in short: it sucks. We can do better. Read that post, and check out Dave Rupert’s…
Custom Post Types in WordPress themes: Best 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.
Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress
WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project’s largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project’s code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.
We need better abstraction in programming with WordPress
Tom McFarlin is always blogging fantastic things. This is another great one. He calls for developers to be more abstract in their WordPress code; in other words, to separate what goes where in a more logical, easier to repeat manner. With good examples of un-abstracted and abstracted code, he shows why abstraction in programming is…
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