Development

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.…

A quick and easy way to generate the required code for Sidebars, Menus, Custom Post Types, and a few other elements you'll likely need for your theme and/or plugin. With the visual tips/help, it makes coding these areas a breeze!

Mark Jaquith explains how he built "Have Baby. Need Stuff!", a baby gear site built on WordPress and inspired by "The Wirecutter"

A thorough post about how you can leverage the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager in a widget.

Although the official WordPress source code still lives in a Subversion repository, you can contribute patches without having to touch svn

Shows how to remove the WordPress admin bar. Then wraps it in a current_user_can check to keep it around for site admins.

You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!

Using the singleton pattern to disallow multiple instantiation of your class based plugin

Creating custom URL rewrites in WordPress, using an easy-to-read, step-by-step tutorial.

Should you choose Eager or Lazy initialization for your singleton class based plugin?