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Dynamically Creating a Custom Stylesheet For WordPress Plugins

December 13, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For more technical users or to skip the the background explanation, skip directly to the code.

One of the challenges that comes with building WordPress plugins is supporting the conflicts that ensue with other poorly coded plugins and/or poorly coded themes.

It’s just the nature of the beast.

When it comes to addressing the way a plugin or widget looks on the frontend, I’ve often advised users to modify the plugin’s stylesheet in order to achieve the results they want.

Unfortunately, this is problematic for a number of reasons.

Comment Images 1.6

December 13, 2012 / Tom

With the recent release of WordPress 3.5, I’ve spent some time updating my plugins to make sure they’re update to date with the latest version. Additionally, I’ve been trying to patch any outstanding bug, issues, and minor features before introducing anything new.

Comment Images generally receives more questions and comments than any of my other plugins, so prior to introducing any major new features, I wanted to resolve a few outstanding issues.

Here’s a run down of the latest update to Comment Images for WordPress.

Single Post Message 1.2

December 13, 2012 / Tom

With the release of WordPress 3.5, I’ve spent some time updating my plugins to make sure they’re compliant. Additionally, I’ve been trying to patch any outstanding bugs and issues before working on new features.

Yesterday, I updated Single Post Message to resolve a couple of issues and introduced new features.

Contributing To WordPress 3.5

December 12, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

By nature, the idea behind open-source software is awesome: a group of people contributing their time to building something greater for others to use.

For the longest time, I’ve been someone who has often benefited from open source, but aside from contributing tickets, bug reports, or documentation, I’ve never actually contributed code to an open source project.

Contributing to WordPress 3.5 is the first time that I’ve ever contributed code to a project, and I couldn’t be happier that it’s on an application that’s such a significant part of my career.

Writing Quality Code in WordPress

December 12, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

I recently shared my thoughts on writing clean code within the context of WordPress, but I think there’s a whole other side to this – writing quality code.

Sounds easy enough, but the thing is that if it were easy then everyone would be doing it. And everyone isn’t. In fact, I’d argue that even those of us who try have room to improve.

In my latest article on Envato, I review a few practical tips for writing quality code specifically for WordPress. Continue reading