Nice history lesson from Marko Heijnen.

Very nice, comprehensive activity logging plugin. Now with Multisite support.

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.

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…

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.

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.

In order to do a few clever things, Query Monitor loads earlier than you ever thought humanly possible (almost). It does this by symlinking a custom db.php in your WP_CONTENT_DIR. This file (when present) gets included before the database driver is loaded, meaning this portion of Query Monitor loads before WordPress even engages its brain.…

Much like Jeffro, I’ve found Incoming Links to be practically useless for the past few years, so I’m glad they’re finally killing the widget.

Finally, a well written set of plugin tutorials for beginner and intermediate developers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.