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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop video, we talk about a few highlights from WordCamp Europe 2017 and ask why the actual attendance was 1/3 less than …
The Beginner’s Guide to Writing Your Own Custom Shortcode
Shortcodes are a popular feature included in many plugins and themes. However, if you’ve never built your own shortcodes before, you may have no idea how to add them to your own WordPress projects. Thankfully, WordPress’ Shortcode API makes it fairly simple to create your own shortcodes. Doing this will enable users to take advantage of your plugin …
Make Your Plugin or Theme Translatable with I18n
WordPress allows you to translate your sites, themes, plugins, and everything into any language whatsoever. It’s part of what makes it such a global and accessible CMS. To be able to translate WordPress sites, you as a developer need to write high-quality code to make your themes and plugins translatable. Today, I am going to talk …
Matt Mullenweg on the Gutenberg Editor, Feature-Focused Releases, and More [Interview]
At WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris, I had the opportunity to sit down with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg for an interview on feature-focused releases, The Gutenberg Editor, niche WordCamps, and more. During the 2016 State of the Word, Mullenweg announced the move away from scheduled releases, toward a feature-focused process, specifically focusing on three major …
WordPress Theme Safety – How to Ensure the Theme Your Are Using is Secure
Two of the biggest reasons for WordPress’ success is how easy it is to customize and that there are so many free ways to do so. The WordPress directory is full of literally thousands of free themes and plugins and can change the design and functionality of your site in seconds. In addition to that, …
Torque Toons: Niche WordCamps We’d Like To See
We love hearing about niche WordCamps like WordCamp for Publishers and LoopConf. So we thought of a few more niche WordCamps we’d like to see happen. Tell us what you’d like to see in the comments below.
Creating A WordPress Settings Page Using the WordPress REST API
One of the many great uses for the WordPress REST API is improving your plugin or theme settings screens. Once you add custom REST API endpoints, getting saved settings via AJAX and saving it via AJAX — IE with no additional page loads — is simpler. Using the WordPress REST API instead of admin-ajax is …
The Newbie Developer’s Guide to WordPress’ PHP Coding Standards
Part of WordPress’ success stems from how easy it is for new developers to contribute to the platform. However, on this type of collaborative project it’s particularly important for coding styles to remain consistent. Without set guidelines, the code can quickly become unmanageable. The WordPress PHP coding standards emerged to help address this problem. Following these …
WordCamp Europe 2017: “WordPress Speaks All Languages”
WordCamp Europe took place over the weekend in Paris, France. The global conference, which brought together 1,900 developers, designers, professionals and enthusiasts from 79 different countries all over the world, sheds light on the globalization of WordPress and highlights the diversity of the community. Sessions covered topics ranging from internationalization, to security, design, the open web, …
How to make a WordPress agency profitable
Many digital agencies are small businesses, building upon intimate relationships with each of their clients. Others are in pursuit of growth, either to be the creatives for Fortune 500 companies or to scale with volume. My company works with many different agencies as their development partner, and they all have in common the wish to …
International WordPress Awards Will honor the Best of WordPress
WordPress is today powered by 28 percent of the entire internet. What started as a blogging platform is now used to power everything from The New York Times to Beyonce.com. From enterprise sites, to personal blog, portfolio, and beyond, WordPress is used to build dynamic digital experiences. The International WordPress Awards (IWP) aims to honor the best …
Automate Your Workflow with BrowserSync
I am very specific about my workflow. I like things a certain way. DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself, has been the core philosophy behind the way I work. If anything seems like a grunt task, something that I find myself doing, again and again, I will work to automate it. Thankfully, WordPress automation tools and scripts allow …
