Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’
Explore the WordPress REST API
Explore the REST API | Developer Resources. This is awesome! WordPress.com continues to impress me with the work they’re doing, and I didn’t expect anything like this. I think it’s going to end up being a foundational implementation for the platform as a whole. A full-on API console is available, and an entire API reference [...]
Proud to Debut: Client Oriented WordPress Development
I’m thrilled to introduce Client Oriented WordPress Development, an ebook I’ve written that explains how to improve your process of WordPress development through a focus on best practices & client needs. This is arguably one of my bigger personal projects and I’m ecstatic that it’s been released.
10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server
10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server | Ewan's Blog on IT and stuff like it. It doesn’t get much more straightforward than this. I enjoy reading articles about well optimized WordPress sites. WordPress, like any other Web app will suffer bottlenecks if not handled properly. This article helps to show [...]
A 1000-Hour Head Start: Introducing The _s Theme
A 1000-Hour Head Start: Introducing The _s Theme | ThemeShaper. This is quite a nice big deal, a brand new WordPress theme framework for your perusal and use. Theme frameworks are a great way to get a leg up on building custom WordPress sites, they can save a ton of time. It’s still important though, [...]
Measuring impact of plugins on WordPress loading
Measuring impact of plugins on WordPress loading – Benchmark | Dev4Press. Working with any system comes with some inherent responsibility. Systems can be abused just as much as they’re used and it’s the abuse that tends to give a great system a terrible name. I think that happens with WordPress in certain ways. While a [...]
Pods 2.0 on Kickstarter!
Pods Development Framework 2.0 by Scott Kingsley Clark — Kickstarter. Pods 2.0 has been a work in progress for some time now. The core team has been doing everything we can to make it happen, but the fact of the matter is we’ve got families to support and bills to pay. Working on such a [...]
Revisiting Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, and Permalinks
Since last discussing Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and the associated Theme files, WordPress has made our lives quite a bit easier. Here’s how I go about extending Custom Post Type permalinks with Custom Taxonomy slugs.
Donate to the Pods CMS Framework Project
Donate to the Pods CMS Framework project « Pods Development. Full disclosure: I am on the Pods development team but will not be accepting proceeds from donation collection at this time. I talk about Pods a lot, I stand behind it fully as an essential WordPress plugin I use on nearly every project. I use [...]
Improving Your Process: WordPress Development Using Xdebug
Programming workflows have always been especially interesting to me. It may be due to the wide spectrum of detail that can be achieved from a workflow, and I’d like to see what’s truly useful and valuable as you go about writing code. Debugging is something I plan on researching further.
WordPress Plugins I Always Use
I was just now asked by @VinThomas which WordPress plugins I always use. With 140 characters being too limiting, and my thought of “I love lists like this!” here we have it: Pods CMS/PodsUI Attachments Bad Behavior (since Akismet is now “commercial”) Debug Bar & Debug Bar Console Google Analytics for WordPress Gravity Forms Members [...]

