Year: 2013
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mockupress
Keynote template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups. Nice! I’ll have to use it when I make my (erotic?) WordPress admin mockup site.
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Varying Vagrant Vagrants
Yeah, alright. This is pretty old news. But it’s been a fantastic replacement for MAMP on my machine. If you’re not already using it, consider giving it a try.
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WordPress Core Trac Gardening
Helen Hou-Sandí’s got a pretty great idea for folks looking to pitch in on core development: For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets,…
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Tidy Repo
A beautiful, carefully curated list of both paid and free plugins. ᔥ
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Automattic’s Awesome Remote Work Culture
Business Insider on how Automattic manages their distributed workforce.
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Rethinking Content Editing in WordPress
I want to go to there.
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LaunchKey
Speaking of passwords, LaunchKey looks like a nice alternative to other multi-factor authentication applications. And hey, big shocker, they’ve got a WordPress plugin.
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Chrome’s insane password security strategy
Use Chrome? Go to chrome://settings/passwords and click on the “Show” button next to one of your passwords. After you’re through being outraged, go download a real password manager like LastPass or 1Password and take the afternoon to migrate everything over.
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The Heartbeat API: Getting Started
The first in a series from Wptuts+ covering WordPress 3.6’s Heartbeat API.
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Anonymity is bullshit
Anonymity is an option on the internet, but it is not an option for ethical business in my opinion. If you are running a serious website, or especially selling something, you should say who you are. Agreed. Sort of. Anonymous businesses like WP Avengers are bullshit. However, anonymous blogs offer people a way to voice opinions…
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Sane Widget Sidebar Management
This. In core. Now.
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Collections
Beautiful & seemingly well coded. Nevertheless, “read more” links are a fucking pox on the internet – and this theme relies on them. Heavily.
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WP DB Driver
Considering an upgrade to PHP 5.5.x? It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.
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Remove WordPress SEO data from post table
Nothing against Yoast’s SEO plugin, but this shit is getting dropped into the mu-plugins folder on every site that I run.
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Changeset 24998: “Remove ‘admin’ as default username in install.”
Yes!
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WordPress Coleman
I’ve spent a lot of time since WordCamp San Francisco thinking about Matt’s expressed desire for faster, Chrome-like automatic patching in his State of the Word. Mainly, I got caught up in the “how” of it. Like how could they balance development on the trunk alongside rapid-fire, stable core releases? Then I read about the move to develop.svn.wordpress.org & Grunt for WordPress…
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Vagrant, Casked
While following the directions on how to set up 10up’s wonderful dev environment for WordPress, I noticed that Vagrant was using a .pkg installer. Now there’s nothing wrong with installing software that way. Hell, doing things via a graphical installer is easier for most end users. But Vagrant isn’t really something that was made for “end…
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Instant Scanner
Have you guys heard about Instant Server? It’s pretty rad. Basically, you push a button, wait a few seconds and they give you 35 minutes of usage on an SSH-able server. Once the 35 minutes is up, you can either pay to keep it running or they trash the server instance. Anyhow, after trying to…
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I Was There
99U dug up this fantastic interview with James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem) that covers feeling like a failure in your late 20’s and how to deal with it. It’s something I really wish I’d heard when I was floundering hard a few years ago.
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Fork This DMCA Takedown
Over the past few months, I’ve had to help several clients file DMCA takedown notices. Yeah, I think the DMCA stinks. But it’s also the most expedient option for squashing content scrapers and self-titled “curators” who don’t spend a lot of time worrying about things like attribution. Anyhow, because of this, I keep finding myself…