Category: Geekery

Tidy Repo – A curated list of the best WordPress plugins

Tidy Repo is a curated collection of the best WordPress plugins, tested and reviewed for reliability.

tidyrepo.com

A beautiful, carefully curated list of both paid and free plugins. ᔥ

Automattic’s Awesome Remote Work Culture

WordPress creator, Matt Mullenweg, has created a dream-job company for 190 lucky employees.

www.businessinsider.com

Business Insider on how Automattic manages their distributed workforce.

I want to go to there.

LaunchKey – Evolving User Authentication, Killing Passwords

LaunchKey is evolving user authentication and killing passwords with physical multi-factor authentication through your smartphone or tablet.

web.archive.org

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.

The Heartbeat API: Getting Started

With 3.6, aka “Oscar”, just released, lets take a look at some of the new features that are available to developers. In particular, in this series I’ll be looking at the new heartbeat API, and…

wp.tutsplus.com

The first in a series from Wptuts+ covering WordPress 3.6’s Heartbeat API.

Sane Widget Sidebar Management – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

Manage one widget area at a time to maintain widget sanity.

wordpress.org

This. In core. Now.

The Theme Foundry – WordPress themes for publishers

WordPress themes with modern magazine layouts and commercial quality fonts for your website. Trusted by over half a million WordPress publishers since 2008.

thethemefoundry.com

Beautiful & seemingly well coded. Nevertheless, “read more” links are a fucking pox on the internet – and this theme relies on them. Heavily.

WP DB Driver – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

An improved database layer for WordPress

wordpress.org

Considering an upgrade to PHP 5.5.x? It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.

remove WordPress SEO data from post table – WordPress Tutorials

The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast is fantastic for WordPress site owners. But if the data is crowding your post table, there is a solution.

andrewnorcross.com

Nothing against Yoast’s SEO plugin, but this shit is getting dropped into the mu-plugins folder on every site that I run.

Changeset 24998 – WordPress Trac

core.trac.wordpress.org

Yes!