Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’
How to Make Sure I Will Uninstall Your Plugin
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
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). [...]
WPMU Dev – Terrible Usability
Monday, June 20th, 2011
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 [...]
WordPress – Plugins or Theme Functions.php
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
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 know what the difference is between the two options. The [...]
Building Quality WordPress Themes – Theme Check Plugin
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
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, [...]
WordPress Taxonomy Images Plugin
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
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 [...]
Using stripslashes() with Theme Options
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
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 was working to escape the content but didn’t know how to get that dang out of the content. After [...]
WordPress Menu UI
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Today we’ve just got a quick comment on how I think the WordPress menu UI could be improved.
Conditional Tags for Custom Taxonomies in WordPress
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
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( [...]
Building Quality WordPress Themes – Theme Unit Test
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
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 [...]
WordPress 3.1 and Post Formats
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
WordPress 3.1 is just around the corner so let’s take a quick look at one of the new features that we’ll get to take advantage of with the new version. What are Post Formats Basically post formats are little bits of meta information meant to change the display of the posts. So a link post [...]
