Hey there, sexy. Hopefully I’ll see you in Jetpack pretty soon…
Author: Jason Cosper
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Create Presentations Easily on WordPress.com with Shortcodes
Create Presentations Easily on WordPress.com with Shortcodes – WordPress.com NewsOn WordPress.com, you can use a number of shortcodes to embed features and create objects with little effort, and make your site look just the way you want. We’re excited to announce new shortcodes you can use to whip up a slideshow presentation — and display it on your WordPress.com site. A sampling of features… -
WordPress.com Connect
WordPress.com Connect | Developer ResourcesA secure and easy way for millions of WordPress.com users to log in to your website or app. By integrating with WordPress.com Connect, WordPress.com users can quickly log in and start using your service. Their profile information is shared with your app saving you the hassle of collecting name, email address, etc. You even get…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
GitHub – pippinsplugins/Multi-Site-Plugins-Add-New: Enables an Add New link under the Plugins menu for Network adminsEnables an Add New link under the Plugins menu for Network admins – GitHub – pippinsplugins/Multi-Site-Plugins-Add-New: Enables an Add New link under the Plugins menu for Network adminsAdds 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 some support its way.
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The Future of WPDB
The future of WPDB | Marko HeijnenLately I’m busy with exploring the future of WPDB. Ticket number #21663 on Trac has a lot of discussions and Kurt Payne started with redoing the code.Excellent thoughts from Marko on the impending removal of
mysql_*()
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WP_Query::get_posts()
WP_Query::get_posts() – Tom J NowellWP_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
Lifespan of a WordPress version – WP EngineerA 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 that average.
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Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress
Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress — Ben GillbanksRecently I saw a tweet conversation between @Norcross and @JPeterson about decaching css files when developing with WordPress. The solution is simple and…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
Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools – SecretsIf 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.
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mockupress
GitHub – 10up/SketchPress: Sketch template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups and designs.Sketch template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups and designs. – GitHub – 10up/SketchPress: Sketch template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups and designs.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
GitHub – Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV: An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPressAn open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress – GitHub – Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV: An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPressYeah, 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.