Year: 2013
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Plugins and Fast WordPress Sites
TL;DR: The number of plugins you have doesn’t really matter if they’re well coded. If every entry level tech support person at every shitty hosting company would read this, we might be able to get somewhere.
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How to Submit a WordPress Trac Ticket
Finally, a WordPress tutorial that doesn’t involve adding something to your theme’s functions.php file. How refreshing. ᔥ
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Blind Browser
A very well done 1X web browser for those Mac folks that have one of those fancy Retina MacBooks.
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Extending Media Explorer
Solid documentation for the new YouTube & Twitter search/embed plugin, Media Explorer, which was just unveiled today.
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Code Revisions
Super clever implementation using WordPress 3.6’s revamped revisions to store plugin & theme edits.
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WordPress in Enterprise Google Group
An exclusive, moderated, by-application-only mailing list for people who do Enterprise WordPress work. Sounds like the normally open WordPress community is going to just love this.
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Improved Date Arguments for WP_Query
It looks like WordPress is getting date queries in 3.7. Fuck yeah!
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8BIT Throws in the Towel
First WP Daily was shuttered about a month ago. Now this happens. What the fuck is going on with these dudes?
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Alternative Post Loops
Oooh. Me likey.
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Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure.
A lot of great, common sense best practices for WordPress developers from Mike Jolley.
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WebKit adds support for srcset
Right now, this is only in the nightly builds of WebKit. But I’m still excited. Why? Well, srcset support in browsers inches the world that much closer to the glorious day where we don’t have to depend on fucking Retina.js anymore.
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WebDevStudios’ Take On a WordPress Core Widget UI Refresh
The guys from WebDevStudios are still thinking about refining the widget management process. And that’s a good thing! I seriously hope this makes it into 3.8.
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Create Presentations Easily on WordPress.com with Shortcodes
Hey there, sexy. Hopefully I’ll see you in Jetpack pretty soon…
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WordPress.com Connect
This is pretty cool! I mean, once sites implement it I’ll be able to log in using another password I can barely fucking remember.
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Multi Site Plugins Add New
Adds an “Add New” sub menu item to the Plugins menu of all sites inside of a network for network admins. Pippin fixes one of the things in Multisite that has annoyed me for, well, basically forever. Also, there’s a bug for this in Trac. If this has ever made you crazy too, go throw…
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The Future of WPDB
Excellent thoughts from Marko on the impending removal of mysql_*() from PHP and what it means for how WordPress (and its plugins) interact with MySQL.
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WP_Query::get_posts()
WP_Query::get_posts has an NPath complexity of 1.43573394139742×10^48. This can also be expressed as: 1,435,733,941,397,422,709,124,940,625,188,500,371,668,992,000,000 Or 1.435 Quindecillion. This is 25 orders of magnitude greater than the number of stars in the visible universe. It is also the number of unit tests required to fully test WP_Query::get_posts. Hold up. Seriously? Shit.
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Lifespan of a WordPress version
A simple, but illuminating, visualization of the WordPress release cycle from WP Engineer. An aside: Over the life of WordPress, a major release has come out (on average) every 200.5 days. If the core devs manage to stay on schedule, it’ll be interesting to see what the rapid release of 3.7 & 3.8 do to…
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Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress
Clever enqueue trick from Ben Gillbanks for anyone who spends time flipping between staging and production.
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Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools
If you spend even a little time in your browser’s developer tools over the course of your work week, you owe it to yourself to pick up some new tricks.