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.
Clever enqueue trick from Ben Gillbanks for anyone who spends time flipping between staging and production.
If you spend even a little time in your browser’s developer tools over the course of your work week, you owe it to yourself to pick up some new tricks.
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.
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.
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”.
A beautiful, carefully curated list of both paid and free plugins. ᔥ
Business Insider on how Automattic manages their distributed workforce.
I want to go to there.
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.