Blog

Alternative Post Loops | Tom J Nowell

web.archive.org

Oooh. Me likey.

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure – Mike Jolley

If you are developing WordPress plugins (or themes) for distribution via WordPress.org, or for client projects, it should be a no-brainer that writing insecure code can lead to severe consequences. Having your plugin pulled from the repository, seeing a loss in respect and end-user confidence, or even worse, seeing users fall victim to easily preventable attacks are all…

mikejolley.com

A lot of great, common sense best practices for WordPress developers from Mike Jolley.

WebDevStudios’ Take On a WordPress Core Widget UI Refresh – WebDevStudios

Let’s face it – unless you like devoting your time to clicking, dragging, accidentally letting go of your mouse button, then clicking and dragging again,

webdevstudios.com

The guys from WebDevStudios are still thinking about refining the widget management process. And that’s a good thing!

I seriously hope this makes it into 3.8.

Create Presentations Easily on WordPress.com with Shortcodes – WordPress.com News

On WordPress.com, you can use a number of shortcodes to embed features and create objects with little effort, and make your site look just the way you want. We’re excited to announce new shortcodes you can use to whip up a slideshow presentation — and display it on your WordPress.com site. A sampling of features…

en.blog.wordpress.com

Hey there, sexy. Hopefully I’ll see you in Jetpack pretty soon…

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…

developer.wordpress.com

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

github.com

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

web.archive.org

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

wpengineer.com

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.