Understand Child Themes, Hooks, Actions and Filters in Five Minutes
What on earth are they? Example time. A theme you like uses <h2> tag for post titles. You hate that and want <h1> instead. The old, boring way is you open the theme files,...
WordPress Theme Design and Development
What on earth are they? Example time. A theme you like uses <h2> tag for post titles. You hate that and want <h1> instead. The old, boring way is you open the theme files,...
Ghost, Rethinking WordPress. Also don’t miss the discussion over at Hacker News. For The Aspiring Professional WordPress Developer is a collection of good advices for those wanting to be a WordPress pro. Recently I...
“The ThemeShaper WordPress Theme Tutorial: 2nd Edition” is the new upgrade of ThemeShaper’s super popular WordPress theme development tutorial. It now contains new code samples, better practices, and, well, you just have to take...
@pippinsplugins shared a nice plugin find: “Uploads by Proxy“. During development, we often both have a local version in our computer and a live version somewhere on the web. This plugin helps by synchronizing...
“WordPress Theme Demand Still Strong“, reports WPHub. “How to Scan Your WordPress Site for Potentially Malicious Code” by WPBeginner. Over at Smashing Magazine, Siobhan McKeown writes a massive post about common WordPress malware infections....
First up, a very concise plugin debugging flowchart by @scribu. “WordPress Themes: XSS Vulnerabilities and Secure Coding Practices” by Tony Perez of Sucuri. “Using LESS with WordPress” by Noel Tock of happytables fame. A...
“I Don’t Use Custom Post Types In My Commercial WordPress Themes“: Mike McAlister sells themes (and he sells tons of it), yet he doesn’t use CPT feature for his themes. His argument is that...
“Treasure Hunting In WordPress Core.” Learning about core code as a way to find existing solutions to coding problems we might encounter. Brian Krogsgard’s “Mac and Web based tools for WordPress Theme Development” is...
WordPress 3.4.2 is out. It’s a maintenance and security release, so better be upgrading if you haven’t yet. Here’s an article on Forbes about the history of WordPress and Automattic. I always find Automattic...
A guide to using WordPress to build SaaS Web Apps A nice guide about using WordPress for creating web apps. Clever hacks involved. (via @kovshenin) “The Plugins I Run” Pippins Williamson went through the...
Core Contributor Handbook WordCamp San Francisco 2012 Group Notes State of the Word 2012 Preserved HTML Editor Markup plugin. Gridster.js Media Wireframes