Category: Geekery

Ridiculously Smart Password Meter Coming to WordPress 3.7 – WP Tavern

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I’m totally fucking thrilled that 3.7 is using Dropbox’s zxcvbn library to fix the password strength meter.

Front-end Editor – Make WordPress Design

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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.

GitHub – voceconnect/afterburner-ansible: Ansible Playbooks to complement afterburner.voceplatforms.com…

Ansible Playbooks to complement afterburner.voceplatforms.com… – GitHub – voceconnect/afterburner-ansible: Ansible Playbooks to complement afterburner.voceplatforms.com…

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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.

Ridiculously handy custom post type cheat sheet from Justin Tadlock.

Changeset 25416 – WordPress Trac

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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.

WordPress as an App Platform? | Jake Goldman

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Great article from 10up’s Jake Goldman on the future of WordPress as an application platform.

MP6 2.0 – Make WordPress Design

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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.

Automatic Updates Possible In WordPress 3.7 – WP Tavern

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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 the updates by default are short sighted. I’d quote the whole comment here, if I could, but it’s a fairly long one. Instead, here’s a few key points.

If the next version of WordPress comes with a feature that the majority of users immediately want to turn off, or think they’ll never use, then we’ve blown it. To take it further: Any time you add a feature that defaults to off, why bother?

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We can be really smart about this, like not doing auto updates when it doesn’t make sense to — such as when we can detect we are a Git clone or SVN checkout, or when updates are blocked from the UI, or when the web user isn’t the owner of core files. But I fail to see why, given the technological ability of pushing the button for you for security releases, we’d get almost all the way there then just add a checkbox. That’s a cop-out.

Fuck yeah, man.

While it’s rare for me to encourage people to go read the comments anywhere, you should really do that in this case. Especially if you started to form even a minor opinion about this feature.

Dashboard Plugin Update – Make WordPress Design

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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.

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.