The case against Singletons in WordPress
Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.
How to debug your work in WordPress
As a hosting company, I beg and plead with you, the developer of sites, to do some basic sanity checks, before you upload your code, for the world to experience. Your clients will thank you. So will our monitoring systems.
How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”
Mark Jaquith explains how he built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”, a baby gear site built on WordPress and inspired by “The Wirecutter”
Building a Better Image Widget with the New WordPress Media Manager
A thorough post about how you can leverage the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager in a widget.
Contributing To WordPress using GitHub
Although the official WordPress source code still lives in a Subversion repository, you can contribute patches without having to touch svn
Remove the WordPress Admin Bar – But Leave it for Admins
Shows how to remove the WordPress admin bar. Then wraps it in a current_user_can check to keep it around for site admins.
How to orderby the include parameter of get_terms()
Nice example of filtering get_terms() to orderby the include parameter. It’s also demonstrating with a WooCommerce example, which is handy.
Theme Wrappers
You know what really grinds my gears? Code duplication. And you know where you can find plenty of that? In WordPress themes!
Testing WordPress Batcache versus Varnish
When it comes to page caching and WordPress, there are a number of options out there. Nginx caching, Varnish, Batcache, W3TC Page Caching, W
Using Singleton Classes for WordPress Plugins
Using the singleton pattern to disallow multiple instantiation of your class based plugin
JavaScript and WordPress – The Definitive Guide
A plain-English look at using JavaScript in WordPress, enqueuing scripts with dependencies, and preventing JavaScript conflicts.
Custom URL Rewrites in WordPress – A Getting Started Guide
Creating custom URL rewrites in WordPress, using an easy-to-read, step-by-step tutorial.
Initializing Singleton Classes used in WordPress Plugins
Should you choose Eager or Lazy initialization for your singleton class based plugin?
Hammy: Adaptive Content Images within WordPress
Hammy speeds up your website by generating and serving resized images for your content area depending on content width
Enabling Action and Filter Hook Removal from Class-based WordPress Plugins
Let’s explore the hook removal problem for plugins using a PHP class as a code wrapper
Using Classes as Code Wrappers for WordPress Plugins
Once you understand how to use classes you’ll find no reason to use global functions for filter and action hooks ever again
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