Year: 2013
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Query Monitor
In order to do a few clever things, Query Monitor loads earlier than you ever thought humanly possible (almost). It does this by symlinking a custom db.php in your WP_CONTENT_DIR. This file (when present) gets included before the database driver is loaded, meaning this portion of Query Monitor loads before WordPress even engages its brain.…
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Hexeosis
I am basically in love with every animated gif that gets posted over on hexeosis. If you’ve never seen any of his work, go dig through the archives. You won’t be sorry.
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Fix Your Boring Slides
Sage wisdom from Andy Baio. Every last WordCamp speaker needs to read this. Stat.
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Sexy Beasts
While I was in Austin last week, work graced me with a new set of business cards. And they’ve got my new(ish) title! Don’t they look fucking handsome? I’m sure that everyone I hand them to will silently curse me for their non-standard size, but maybe that’ll become less of an issue once they notice…
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Should I Use A Carousel?
SPOILER ALERT: The answer is always going to be “no”.
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Dashboard makeover removes “Incoming Links” widget
Much like Jeffro, I’ve found Incoming Links to be practically useless for the past few years, so I’m glad they’re finally killing the widget.
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Preconnect, prefetch, prerender…
Pretty great presentation from Google’s Ilya Grigorik on how you can make pages display even faster for your visitors.
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Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5
A comprehensive list of all the annoying, buggy shit that came along with iOS 7’s “upgrade” to Safari.
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Plugin Pug
Finally, a well written set of plugin tutorials for beginner and intermediate developers.
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Ridiculously smart password meter coming to WordPress 3.7
I’m totally fucking thrilled that 3.7 is using Dropbox’s zxcvbn library to fix the password strength meter.
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Front-end Editor
This reminds me a bit of Medium’s editor. Mainly the darkness. But I still really like it. I honestly hope they get enough work done on the plugin to ship it in 3.8.
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Please stop using “doing_it_wrong”
A plea for developers to quit being condescending assholes, by Tom McFarlin.
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Voce releases Afterburner playbooks
Voce Platform’s Ansible playbooks for their scalable WordPress configuration, Afterburner. Even if you don’t use the playbooks, there’s tons of great config tweaks that can be found by digging through the code.
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register_post_type() cheat sheet
Ridiculously handy custom post type cheat sheet from Justin Tadlock.
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Garbage collecting transients on database upgrades
This is going to possibly piss off a lot of half-assed plugin developers. But it’ll also be a big fucking deal if it makes it into 3.7 unscathed.
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WordPress as an App Platform?
Great article from 10up’s Jake Goldman on the future of WordPress as an application platform.
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MP6 hits 2.0
It’s still not 100% production ready, but it gets that much closer with every release. This version brings user selectable color schemes and a new way to set scalable/colorable custom icons. Very nice.
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Nacin’s thoughts on 3.7’s auto update feature
I get people’s apprehensions towards the automatic update feature coming in WordPress 3.7. Developers tend to be pretty skittish about turning over control of any part of their site to someone else. In the comments on this piece at WP Tavern, Nacin does a fantastic job breaking down why these calls for opting out of…
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The dashboard redesign begins to take shape
The first set of mockups reimagining the WordPress dashboard is up on Make/UI, and they look nice. I’m looking forward to using this. Just as soon as they make it into an actual plugin, that is.
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WordPress importer not importing attachments? Try exporting all statuses!
It would appear that selecting only “Published” posts in the WordPress exporter means that attachments don’t get exported. Because why should they? It’s not like your posts might use them or anything.