Category: Geekery
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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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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.
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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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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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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…