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 […]
Developer Plugins I Can’t Live Without
When you’ve been developing for WordPress for a while, you get into a bit of a flow, and you end up reaching for the same tools again and again. And if you’ve reviewed as many plugins as I have, you probably will come across quite a few useful ones. I’ve found that each time I install WordPress fresh, there are a few plugins I install immediately, no matter what the project. They’ve helped me out quite a bit, and I’m hoping they might help you all too. Here they are, in reverse alphabetical order. WP MigrateDB Pro: $40 – 300 […]
Better Tools Make Better WordPress Developers
The 13th century French proverb “mauvés ovriers ne trovera ja bon hostill” roughly translates to “a bad workman will never find a good tool.” I’m sure at the time this proverb applied to stone masons and carpenters. Few would have imagined that it would also apply to web developers pushing bits around on a screen centuries later. It’s unlikely that you are “a bad workman.” You are reading this article afterall. You’re probably looking for a new tool to help you with WordPress development. High performing web developers don’t do that. In his reveting WordCamp San Diego 2013 talk, the […]
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