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Microsoft is one of the largest and most valuable tech companies in the world. Best known for products like Office, Xbox, Windows, and Skype, Microsoft is known as an industry leader. As such, the tech giant has unsurprisingly made the leap into the world of open source. In collaboration with web development agency WebDevStudios, Microsoft migrated several of its websites and blogs to WordPress. “Most of the public facing blogs and websites that WebDevStudios migrated to WordPress for Microsoft ran on the same proprietary ASP.NET and SQL Server based Content Management System,” WDS CTO and Co-Founder Brian Messenlehner told Torque. “The other Microsoft websites […]
A golden rule of WordPress development is “always use a WordPress API when possible.” We want to use classes and functions provided by WordPress to communicate with the database to ensure the right hooks are fired, and our code is as protected against changes made in future versions of WordPress. This also means we need to create a database abstraction on top of WordPress APIs. Doing so early on in a WordPress plugin, theme, or site will lead to less copy pasting and make it easier to fix changes later on. In this article, I’m going to talk about why […]
Welcome to the final part of our series on building a WordPress plugin! Starting as a complete beginner, we’ve come a long way over the series and picked up the beginnings of what could be some truly useful skills – as well as a new-found appreciation of the hard work that goes into actually putting a plugin together. To wrap things up, we’ll highlight some important plugin topics that we didn’t quite get to, and suggest a whole slew of useful resources for taking things further on your own. We’ll also provide a handy list of classic WordPress plugins that are well […]
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. Doc Pop’s News Drop Want your site to look great Twitter? This week we give you step by step instructions on how to activate and test Twitter Cards on your WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. You know, I’m like the kids out there. I’m hip. I’m on the Instagrams and the Twitters, and the facebooks. As a […]
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