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Earlier this month, I mentioned that I was looking to bring the WordPress Widget Boilerplate and the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate to 1.0. Throughout the month, I received a several pull requests most of which I merged into the projects.
I made a few changes that I’ll detail momentarily, but as of right now both WordPress Plugin Boilerplates are officially tagged as 1.0 and are available in their respective GitHub repositories.
In late 2010, I released a small jQuery plugin called Slide Note that made it easy to add sliding notifications to your website or web application. It included a variety of features such as the ability to control where it was displayed on the page, custom callbacks, and Ajax integration.
Eventually, I built a small WordPress plugin around but retired it shortly after the time required to maintain and support it exceeded the amount of time I had and, honestly, the amount of joy I was getting out of the plugin.
Anyway, I continued to maintain the jQuery plugin for sometime, but it’s time to retire that plugin, too.
Finding JavaScript resources is almost too easy – aside from a quick Google search or looking through some of the stuff that’s available on GitHub, you can find practically almost anything you need.
But finding something that has a nice API, is lightweight, and doesn’t require any third-party library is becoming a bit rare. Continue reading
This past year, I’ve participated in a number of different meetups and speaking engagements all of which are oriented around blogging, WordPress, development, or something similar.
Generally speaking, I’ve enjoyed the events that I’ve attended. I always try to keep it really laid back (I make a lot of my presentations in Paper, even), and do what I can to make the events more of a discussion rather than a lecture.
For the most part, it goes well, but yesterday was a bit of a different audience: high school students.
One of the things that makes developing for WordPress so fun is the nature of its extensibility through plugins. When it comes to WordPress plugin programming, there are actually two ways that you can write your plugins:
In the lastest series running on Envato, Stephen Harris and I provide an in-depth discussion on both of these strategies.
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