The WordPress design and development process
Brian Krogsgard
Tammy Hart, a designer and developer with 10up, shares her process with us. Everyone's varies a little bit. How does it stack up to yours?
Developing WordPress plugins with boilerplates
Brian Krogsgard
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…
Introduction to the WordPress rewrite API
Brian Krogsgard
The rewrite API can be confusing (to me at least). Remi Corson walks you through it on the WP Explorer blog.
SlabText – a jQuery plugin for equalizing line measure in headlines
Brian Krogsgard
This is a slick jQuery script to make big, fancy, responsive headlines where each line has equal line measure. So it makes it like those posters we all love where the font size varies per line to make the measure…
I thought I knew about responsive design
Brian Krogsgard
I thought I knew a lot about responsive design, but I learned a ton in this post by Paul Stamatiou. He recently redesigned his blog, and he goes into great length into how he did it, and what he learned.…
Introduction to WordPress Filters
Brian Krogsgard
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
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress Gear is a "compendium" of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp
It’s the information, stupid
Brian Krogsgard
That's why people go to websites. My colleague, David Hickox, hits the nail on the head. Sliders are the latest craze, but, "they’re just the latest in a long line of misguided client fixations aimed at producing excitement and engagement…
How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms
Brian Krogsgard
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.
Nevermind
Brian Krogsgard
"Nevermind". A human, friendly example of nice messaging in a web interface. I love stuff like this. Also, I started reading this blog tonight because Tina Roth Eisenberg, the site's owner, did an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the Big Web…
Batch Resizing 45,000 images in WordPress (via the command line)
Ben May
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
Travis Northcutt
tl;dr - put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!
Reset
Austin Passy
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
Brian Krogsgard
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…
Custom Post Types in WordPress themes: Best practice?
Tom McFarlin
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
Brian Krogsgard
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.
