I’ve got a few new and updated plugins to share on today’s daily roundup. We had a comment from one of our readers about having this or another post that is more of a recommended or featured plugin post. What do you all think? Any interest? If so, any suggestions? Here’s your plugins for the day:
Looking to Hire a WPer? Check Out Post Status.
Brian has created a thread for those that are looking to hire a WordPress-related designer / developer – I cleverly call this: LFWP (Looking for WordPress’er). Head over there and drop your name or company profile in the comments and see if you can get some top-shelf talent. Thanks Brian for doing that. Word to your mothers.
WordPress as CMS – Another Look by Caleb Mellas
Caleb Mellas over at Webinsation had a fairly long post about his perspective on WordPress as a CMS detailing how he thought WordPress ultimately drops the ball from a number of angles. I was going to offer my thoughts in response but since there doesn’t appear to be any direct commenting system available I thought I’d bring the conversation over here (if there’s one to be had). There were a few great points of note on HackerNews as well, to be sure. WordPress has gone through a lot of changes in the past few years and has been moving up the […]
Make Plugin Unit Testing Easier, Quicker
Cristi Burcă, otherwise known as scribu, has shared a fantastic resource for unit testing your plugin with an easy-to-understand system for automating and setting up this “chore” that most plugin developers never really get around to. With a simple command you can download the configure the WordPress testing library and get your testing done so that you don’t have to deal with as many issues when it gets released publicly, because it’s not nice to get hate mail from angry users about your broken plugin, right? [code]wp scaffold plugin-tests <your-plugin>[/code] And I understand it, I really do. I don’t like […]
40+ WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know
If you want to take your WordPress blogging to a whole new level of proficiency, it’s time you learned the many different keyboard shortcuts that are built into WordPress. No plugins needed, this is just another bit of awesome that is WordPress. There are two sets of shortcuts we’ll take a look at, the first being the ones that you can use while composing posts and pages while the second set can be used when you’re moderating comments. If you take some time to learn these, you can really save yourself a lot of time (and amaze your friends!). Here’s the quick and […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.18.2013
Happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a great start to the new work week. I’ve got quite a few new and updated plugins to share in today’s roundup. I think the Lorem Ipsum plugin deserves a good look. Especially if you are a theme designer and want to generate loads of content quickly. Here’s the whole list for today:
First Draft of Twenty Thirteen Now in Core
The new Twenty Thirteen theme is now in WordPress Core, as Mark Jaquith has just announced over on Make WordPress Core. It’s a pretty big departure from what we usually expect out of a default bundled theme in terms of colour, but my first impression is very positive. There’s a demo site available for those who want to take a quick tour. You can also install it yourself if you’re into installing WordPress trunk from SVN.
Posterous Gone, Posthaven Here? Roll Your Own?
Fascinating how blog platforms come and go, right? As many of you have been made aware, Posterous has gone the way of the deadpool and will be permanently closed in less than 2 months time: On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit. Right now and over the next couple months until April 30th, you can download all of your Posterous Spaces including your photos, videos, […]
Deploy WordPress on Heroku via Buildpack
Have you ever wanted to install WordPress on Heroku? Well, now you can with a simple buildpack developed by MChung. Wait a second you say – isn’t Heroku for Ruby applications? Ah, you must have missed out on the Celadon Cedar stack which makes this much easier to do. You can, as a developer, install and run any language or choice if you’d like. Tada! It’ll use the following stack:
WordPress Functions, Filters & Actions – Part 1
Extending the functionality of your WordPress website is as simple as installing a good plugin. But what if you need a custom functionality not available by plugin? With a little understanding of PHP and WordPress actions and filters (wait don’t leave me yet!) you too can add helpful features to your own WordPress site. In fact, one of the first plugins I wrote was to solve a problem for my employer for which there was not extant plugin. Let’s take a look at a simple WordPress function present in every installation of WordPress since version 3.0. A function is a […]
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