Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
For me, one of the minor annoyances with working with WordPress page templates is that you often have to look at a specific page’s edit screen to see what page template it has been assigned.
That is to say that there’s no way to get a global view of the pages and their associated templates.
In order to make it a bit easier, I wrote a quick plugin that makes it easy to see which page template is assigned to a given page on the All Pages screen in the WordPress dashboard.
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Periodically, I’ll receive emails from others who are have stumbled into a problem with WordPress, and they aren’t sure how to solve it; however, before I can reply, I end up hearing from them again.
They end up sharing something like:
Nevermind! I figured it out. In case you’re curious, here’s the code that I used…
I love it when that happens, but who doesn’t, right?
And from there, I normally like to take a look at the code, ask any questions, and/or make any suggestions (if there are any to make).
This past week, someone sent me something that they had done that was really cool, and they mentioned that I could share it on my blog, if I wanted.
Instead, I asked:
Word up.
Filing this away for future reference unless you’d want to do the first guest post I’ve ever had . . . . . . . :)
No pressure.
He obliged, but this was interesting, because I’d been toying with extended guest posting for sometime.
As much as I enjoy RSS (and the constant improvements to Feedly), it’s evident that the way in which we are sharing their content is changing.
After all, RSS is primarily meant for syndication, right?
But I think that more we are using social networks to share their content, and then discuss their content more than we once did. Honestly, I’m not really a fan of fragmenting discussions across a variety of networks, but that’s content for another post.
Anyway, as much as I still enjoy using RSS, following links from Twitter, or things shared on other sites and networks, I’ve been a little bit frustrated with the whole experience of trying to keep up with the content I want to read, and then having a solution for going back to reference it.
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The next version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is officially tagged and available for download in GitHub.
This release – although a minor improvement over the last – introduces several improvements to 2.6.0, and also marks a change in the development of the project, as well as the introduction of several things that will be coming to the Boilerplate in the next several versions.
After talking about my post-Standard plans yesterday, I received several questions – some on Twitter, some via email – about my use of LESS rather than Sass since Sass is going into WordPress core.
@tommcfarlin Any thoughts on switching to Sass since its going into core?
— Tom Harrigan (@TomHarrigan) November 19, 2013
It’s a good question, to be sure, and it’s one I’ve thought about since this ticket in Trac. Since I’ve been using LESS for over a year in various projects, I’ve had to decide how I want to move forward with development of those projects and future projects, as well.
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