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How To Find The Permalink By Slug in WordPress

December 26, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you're an advanced developer, then you may want to skip directly to the code.

As soon as you begin working on an advanced plugin or an application in which you try to maintain some form of solid cohesion (or even an API), then you end finding that there’s a function you need that isn’t available in the Codex.

This isn’t unique to WordPress. Any programming language that has a rich API ultimately has a set of solid features that allow you to build upon them to write more power functions.

For me, I try to publish most of my helper functions here on the site. It makes things searchable, available, and even available for code review for the more critical readers :).

Case in point: In a recent project, I needed to find the permalink by slug in WordPress and there wasn’t a function available to do exactly that, so here’s what I ended up doing.

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Merry Christmas 2012

Today, my family and I – and all of the in-laws on both sides – are celebrating Christmas, so we’re spending time exchanging gifts, hanging out, eating, and enjoying the time with each other.

Whatever you’re celebrating today – even if it’s nothing at all – I hope you guys are having an awesome time, as well.

I’m looking forward to bringing in 2013 with as much good stuff as possible and hope you are, as well. I’ll be back to the regular content tomorrow.

Merry Christmas and to all a good night (or good morning or whatever time it is where you are or when you read this :)).

The Inaugural Video Blog – Discussing WordPress: A Post Mortem

December 24, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the best things about doing any type of experiment is that you’re not necessarily committed to following through on anything beyond seeing if the idea has any value.

Last week, I asked – in awkwardness and all – if there was any reason or interest in discussing WordPress development via a series of video blog posts. Overall, the response between the comments and via Twitter was nearly 50/50.

The Inaugural Video Blog: On Discussing WordPress Development

December 21, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Be sure to read the follow-up post about the status of future video posts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLu8_k46HT0&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

As I mention in the video, this is my first venture into video blogging.

And yes, it’s awkward, but a number of developers, bloggers, and friends who I respect have done this so I thought I might as well as try it.

Collapsible Menus For jQuery 1.1

December 21, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

This project has been retired, though the source code is still available on GitHub.

Collapsible Menus For jQuery

Collapsible Menus for jQuery is a small jQuery plugin that I released earlier this year. From the project’s original post:

Collapsible Menus is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create a collapsible menu using nested, unordered lists.

Easy enough, right?

It’s a small plugin that’s receives very few emails, comments, and issues; however, when they arise, I try to resolve them quickly. As of today, I’ve just released Collapsible Menus 1.1.