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Jay Hoffmann

Conductor: A Modular Layout Builder for WordPress

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October 28, 2014

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In the wide, wide world of WordPress page builders, Conductor sure sticks out. It doesn’t integrate with your post editor or offer you limitless layout options. Instead, it focuses on helping you create excellent layouts for your pages and archives in (and I mean this) a matter of minutes, using a few clever tools. Matt Medieros of Slocum Studio, the creator of Conductor, sat down with me and walked me through Conductor’s functionality. Then he let me play with it on my own site. The tl;dr, Conductor is a keeper. What’s Conductor? Conductor is a layout builder plugin that integrates […]

Managing Your Front-End Build Process in WordPress

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October 21, 2014

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In a lot of ways, I’m a front-end developer who happens to work with WordPress. I’m far from an expert on the back-end, but I know my way around. My guess is there are lot of developers out there like me. HTML, CSS and JavaScript coders that come to WordPress because it’s easy to use. But front-end web technology moves very quickly, and you probably have a build process of your own. As you move along integrating this workflow with WordPress, there are a few things to look out for. Coding up Themes I wrote a whole article on how […]

Eight Plugins for Editing in WordPress like a Pro

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October 14, 2014

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With all of the great features being rolled into WordPress core, it can be easy to forget that it is still the best CMS out there for managing a blog or publication. Out of the box, WordPress offers great tools for managing multiple authors, establishing a workflow, and drafting and editing posts. But with the help of several plugins, you can really amp up the way you approach editing and managing posts, right in the WordPress admin. EditFlow EditFlow offers a full suite of tools for setting up a blog or publication with multiple authors, and users that fill different […]

Evaluating Support Options for Plugin Developers

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October 7, 2014

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Offering support for WordPress plugins is a tricky business. I consider it extremely important for plugin developers to offer some level of support, but it can be hard to figure out just how much. Fortunately, there have been several conversations surrounding support. Tom McFarlin in particular, wrote a series of posts discussing support options for both free and premium plugins. I think it’s worthwhile to keep the conversation going, and take a fresh look at these. Free Support Support for your plugins requires an investment of your own time and resources, and no small one at that. But here’s the […]

WordPress 4.1 Welcomes a New Class of Committers

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September 30, 2014

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With WordPress 4.0 released, it’s time to once again look to the future, WordPress 4.1. Over the weekend, Andrew Nacin announced our new release lead for 4.1, Jack Blackbourn, and a couple of guest committers that are coming along for the ride. John Blackbourn has been a core committer to WordPress for the better half of a decade, and has made some pretty incredible contributions to the WordPress community — with valuable blog posts, and plugins like Query Monitor, User Switching, and WP Crontrol. Blackbourn will be joined by a new group of guest committers, with a few names you’ve […]

5 Plugins to Optimize Media Files in WordPress

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September 24, 2014

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Managing media is one of those experiences that keeps getting better out of the box in WordPress. But it is also one of the hardest parts of running any website. Images, video, and audio often account for a large majority of your page weight, and ensuring that it is optimized can go a long way towards making your site faster, cleaner and more approachable users. Fortunately, there are several plugins out there that can help you with this. Here are five. Imsanity Imsanity is a plugin with one task in mind. To limit the size of images that are uploaded […]

How Plugin Developers Should Manage Image Assets

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September 16, 2014

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With the release of WordPress 4.0, the plugin installation experience saw a bit of an upgrade to make it more user friendly. This means users will be turning to the WordPress.org repository and WordPress admin more and more to browse and discover new plugins. As a plugin developer, making sure that you have all of the proper assets, a banner, an icon, and screenshots is a great way to ensure that users will understand what your plugin does, and make it stand out in search results. Now is probably a good time to take stock of the image assets that […]

Tidy Repo Finds a New Partner, with Many Updates to Come

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September 12, 2014

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For a little while now, I’ve been running a little site called Tidy Repo as a resource for new and advanced users alike. The site’s principle is fairly simple, a single repository of all the greatest WordPress plugins, tested, curated and reviewed. I go through the tens of thousands of plugins out there, and find the very best ones, and put them up on Tidy Repo with a short walkthrough for getting started. The concept is simple. Use any plugin listed on my site, and I can guarantee that it will work, be well supported, and be frequently updated. Each […]

The Plugin Installation Experience Gets an Upgrade in WordPress 4.0

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September 9, 2014

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It’s here: WordPress 4.0. As some of you know, my main passion in WordPress happens to be plugins, and above all, plugin discoverability. And WordPress 4.0 has made some great strides in this area, adding a completely new plugin installation experience that makes it easier to sort and find the plugin you are looking for. To see what the new plugin installation interface looks like, you can visit Plugins -> Add New after you have updated to WordPress 4.0. You’ll notice some pretty big changes right away. The most noticeable change is an upgraded UI, where installable plugins are arranged […]

Getting Started with the Piklist Framework

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August 26, 2014

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If you’ve been developing WordPress for a while, chances are you find yourself repeating the same code over and over. Creating custom post types, taxonomies, meta boxes, and generally structuring your content can all be broken down into reusable chunks. And that’s what the Piklist framework does. It gives you access to development shortcuts for getting your site off the ground. What You Get with Piklist Piklist makes common tasks much easier with a few useful functions and code snippets. For instance, Piklist gives you a new function to hook into when creating custom post types and taxonomies making robust settings […]

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