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A Reference of WordPress Utility Functions

August 8, 2013 / Tom

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One of the nicest things about Twitter is being able to curate who you want to follow, listen to, and engage with as far as your interests are concerned. Truth be told, I wouldn’t know half the people that I saw at WordCamp or that I’ve done interviews or hangouts with were it not for first meeting them on Twitter.

On top of that, being able to answer other people’s questions, chat with others who are far more experienced or who offer alternative ideas, or who provide useful resources is an big plus.

No complaints on something like that, right?

Case in point: Paul Underwood is someone that’s often sharing a lot of great material – not long ago, he shared a great post on a number of useful WordPress utility functions.

Save Time with WordPress Shortcuts

August 7, 2013 / Tom

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Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of being featured on the ManageWP blog with some other fantastic writers, developers, designers, and bloggers all of whom opted to share their favorite WordPress shortcuts, tools, and tricks for getting their work done faster.

Overall, there were 28 people who were featured all of whom had some great things to say.

Get An Input Element’s Type with jQuery

August 7, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In a recent project, I’ve been working with large groups of input elements, and the course of action that’s taken depends on the type of element that raises the event.

Since so much of the project uses jQuery, I opted to write an extremely simple plugin that makes it easy to get an input’s type by calling a function on said element.

Some Thoughts on Design Patterns in WordPress

August 6, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

A few months ago, I did a series of articles on Design Patterns in WordPress that was meant to provide an introduction to object-oriented design patterns, and how they can be used when developing projects on top of WordPress.

When it comes to working with WordPress, code is normally written one of two ways:

Procedural
Object-oriented

For procedural programming, think of `functions.php` in theme development, and for object-oriented think of plugins. This isn’t to say that procedural programming isn’t used in plugins – it often is (case in point: Markdown Code For WordPress) – but so are object-oriented techniques (see the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate).

In short, decide patterns exist for a reason: They are proven solutions to common problems that appear in software development.

Yes, they may have to be tweaked a bit for a given situation, but the definition, structure, and so on remains the same. The thing is, I don’t often see many design patterns used throughout WordPress product development.

To be clear, I’m not talking about WordPress core, I’m talking about products built on top of WordPress. Perhaps I’ve just not done enough digging or paid enough attention to some of the work that’s out there, but I think if we – as developers – spent time working on implementing design patterns in our work, projects could have much more longevity rather than devolving into spaghetti code that’s so often found in WordPress work.

Comment Images 1.11.0 – Now Available

August 5, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I had an interesting request for my Comment Images For WordPress plugin:

I wanted to make the default DISABLE so I could turn it ON on the ones I need it, instead of having to go through 200 posts and turn it OFF on 190 posts, that’s all. But if that’s not possible I understand.

Truth be told, this is a scenario that I’ve never thought of, but if you’re someone with a blog who has hundreds (or even thousands) of posts, then being able to disable or enable the feature across the board makes sense.