For a while I was involved pretty heavily with the Ruby on Rails community. I did design consulting on a number of application interfaces and some frontend programming. Alas, those days have passed and I’m 100% WordPress and PHP focussed.
Now I like WordPress and PHP just fine but one thing I really miss from the
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One of the first things you should do when building a WordPress theme/plugin is turn on WP_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file. Turning this on will make sure that you get notices for bad functions, deprecated items in your files…Every theme/site I build has this flag set in development (don’t set it on the production server).
As
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As with much blogging this screencast is born of a rant about how WPMU Dev disrespects paying customers with their stupid WordPress admin notifications. After all the stuff that flies around about them plus the terrible usability and the long on promise short on delivery stuff regarding their plugins in their forums I’m not a
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UPDATE: I’ve taken a second stab at the topic on WP Theme Tutorial.
While I’ve mentioned it in my presentations on Mobile WordPress development I’ve never really expanded on my thoughts on building WordPress features in the theme functions.php file or in a plugin.
What’s the Difference?If you’re just starting out in WordPress you may not even
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We’re continuing on our topic of writing quality WordPress themes by looking at the Theme Check plugin. Theme check was originally developed to give people writing themes for the WordPress.org repository a way to check their themes for compatibility with the theme review requirements before they uploaded their theme for review.
If you’re not aware, when you
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Custom Taxonomies are awesome in WordPress but unfortunately most of the ‘solutions’ to various problems deal only with categories or tags still. Recently I had to add an image to my custom taxonomies and @_mfields again had a plugin that solved my problem.
Unfortunately there was one little ‘gotcha’ with the plugin which we’ll go over
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Update: This is not the right way to do this. Use WordPress functions to sanitize data. April 27, 2012
While I might be showing a bit about my PHP naivety but while working with theme options recently I found that some of my content had a just before a single quote. Now I knew it
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Today we’ve just got a quick comment on how I think the WordPress menu UI could be improved.
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WordPress 3.0 gave us custom taxonomies and since we’re using them regularly we’re also getting into conditional tags with our custom taxonomies.
Conditional tags for taxonomies differ from conditional tags for regular categories or tags. Below is an example of using a conditional tag for the standard ‘misc’ category found in WordPress.
[php] if( is_category( ‘misc’ ) )
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A while ago I wrote about error logging in WordPress. Today we’re going to look further at testing your theme by using the WordPress Theme Unit Test.
The Theme Unit Test is really just a sample data file to download with a bunch of things for you to check on your theme. I just have a
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