Author: Jason Cosper

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor – Nacin
nacin.com

Required reading from Nacin for any aspiring WordPress core contributor.

February 10, 2014
Debug Bar Slow Actions

Debug Bar Slow Actions – Konstantin Kovshenin
kovshenin.com

Debug Bar Slow Actions is an extension for the popular Debug Bar plugin. It adds a new panel with a list of the top 100 slowest actions (and filters) during the current page request.

Konstantin has done a great job with this. If you do any amount of site troubleshooting & optimizing, this is worth an install.

February 10, 2014
Writing Open Source Code (Or “Here Be Dragons”)

Writing Open Source Code (Or “Here Be Dragons”) | Tom McFarlin
One of the challenges in writing open source code is the criticism that can come that can infuse a level of self-doubt. But this should be ignored.
tommcfarlin.com

Great shit from Tom McFarlin that should be required reading for every new open source developer.

January 20, 2014
The Code History of WordPress

The code history of WordPress
It’s been more then ten years since the first release of WordPress. It was forked from b2 and they already need to deal with checking the code. Thousands of li…
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Nice history lesson from Marko Heijnen.

January 19, 2014
WP Security Audit Log

WP Activity Log – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
The #1 user-rated activity log plugin. Keep a comprehensive log of the changes that happen on your site with this easy to use plugin.
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Very nice, comprehensive activity logging plugin. Now with Multisite support.

January 17, 2014
When to use target=”_blank”

When to use target=”_blank” | CSS-Tricks – CSS-Tricks
Anchor links1 may have a target attribute which controls what happens when that link is clicked. One of the possible values of that attribute is _blank, which
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TL;DR: Almost never.

January 16, 2014
Plugin Organizer

Plugin Organizer – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
This plugin allows you to do the following: 1. Change the order that your plugins are loaded. 2. Selectively disable plugins by any post type or wordp …
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Plugin Organizer adds a whole new level of optimization to WordPress. When activated, you can selectively disable plugins on sections of your site and re-order how they’re loaded.

I’m seriously going to have to carve out some time this weekend to fuck around with this.

January 16, 2014
Good People of WordPress: We are Fighting a War

Good People of WordPress: We are Fighting a War |Rami Abraham
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Some good shit from Rami Abraham.

Open-source communities are the front lines against a force few will ever comprehend. WordPress is one of the most influential and powerful of open-source communities on the Internet.
Who is our enemy?
Closed-source content management systems, sketchy data-mining practices, terrible privacy policies, and the un-ending, Draconian greed of so many large businesses.

If this makes your loins stir, check out IndieWebCamp and the projects they’re working on for extra credit.

January 16, 2014
Good First Bug

Custom Query – WordPress Trac
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Want to become a core contributor? Do you have absolutely no idea where to start? Consider keeping an eye on the good-first-bug tag on Trac.

January 15, 2014
Git mirrors for WordPress

Git mirrors for WordPress – Make WordPress Core
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For all practical purposes, the SVN and Git repositories are now equals. Pick your poison; use whatever you’d like for all your development and deployment needs.

Fuck. Yes.

January 15, 2014