Category: WordPress

WordPress.com Connect | Developer Resources

A secure and easy way for millions of WordPress.com users to log in to your website or app. By integrating with WordPress.com Connect, WordPress.com users can quickly log in and start using your service. Their profile information is shared with your app saving you the hassle of collecting name, email address, etc. You even get…

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This is pretty cool! I mean, once sites implement it I’ll be able to log in using another password I can barely fucking remember.

GitHub – pippinsplugins/Multi-Site-Plugins-Add-New: Enables an Add New link under the Plugins menu for Network admins

Enables an Add New link under the Plugins menu for Network admins – GitHub – pippinsplugins/Multi-Site-Plugins-Add-New: Enables an Add New link under the Plugins menu for Network admins

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Adds an “Add New” sub menu item to the Plugins menu of all sites inside of a network for network admins.

Pippin fixes one of the things in Multisite that has annoyed me for, well, basically forever.

Also, there’s a bug for this in Trac. If this has ever made you crazy too, go throw some support its way.

The future of WPDB | Marko Heijnen

Lately I’m busy with exploring the future of WPDB. Ticket number #21663 on Trac has a lot of discussions and Kurt Payne started with redoing the code.

markoheijnen.com

Excellent thoughts from Marko on the impending removal of mysql_*() from PHP and what it means for how WordPress (and its plugins) interact with MySQL.

WP_Query::get_posts() – Tom J Nowell

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WP_Query::get_posts has an NPath complexity of 1.43573394139742×10^48. This can also be expressed as:

1,435,733,941,397,422,709,124,940,625,188,500,371,668,992,000,000

Or 1.435 Quindecillion. This is 25 orders of magnitude greater than the number of stars in the visible universe. It is also the number of unit tests required to fully test WP_Query::get_posts.

Hold up. Seriously? Shit.

Lifespan of a WordPress version – WP Engineer

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A simple, but illuminating, visualization of the WordPress release cycle from WP Engineer.

An aside: Over the life of WordPress, a major release has come out (on average) every 200.5 days. If the core devs manage to stay on schedule, it’ll be interesting to see what the rapid release of 3.7 & 3.8 do to that average.

Using WP_DEBUG to Improve CSS and Style Enqueues in WordPress — Ben Gillbanks

Recently I saw a tweet conversation between @Norcross and @JPeterson about decaching css files when developing with WordPress. The solution is simple and…

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Clever enqueue trick from Ben Gillbanks for anyone who spends time flipping between staging and production.

GitHub – 10up/SketchPress: Sketch template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups and designs.

Sketch template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups and designs. – GitHub – 10up/SketchPress: Sketch template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups and designs.

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Keynote template for quickly creating awesome WordPress admin interface mockups.

Nice! I’ll have to use it when I make my (erotic?) WordPress admin mockup site.

GitHub – Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV: An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress

An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress – GitHub – Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV: An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress

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Yeah, alright. This is pretty old news. But it’s been a fantastic replacement for MAMP on my machine. If you’re not already using it, consider giving it a try.

Scared of WordPress Core Trac, but want to give it a shot? Try Trac Gardening! – Helen on WordPress

For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets, Trac just isn’t manageable for anybody anymore (except perhaps for Sergey). Casual and hopeful patch contributors…

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Helen Hou-Sandí’s got a pretty great idea for folks looking to pitch in on core development:

For 3.7, the biggest goal (at least in my mind) is to blow through Trac and close as many tickets as possible, either through committing a patch or because they aren’t relevant anymore. At close to 3800 open tickets, Trac just isn’t manageable for anybody anymore.

I’ll gladly spend a little time this next cycle doing a little “gardening”.

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.

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