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The Problems with WordPress Themes

September 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Problems with WordPress Themes

Japh – a fellow tweep and WordPress evangelist at Envato – recently shared a post on his blog titled “The Problems with themes on ThemeForest are problems with Themes.”

The topic of discussion boils down to this:

ThemeForest has a massive library of themes that are available for purchase
Some of the themes that are available for purchase consist of poor code that ultimately affect plugins and/or the overall WordPress experience
A proposed solution for how to increase standards and improve the theme review process

Though I’ve little experience with ThemeForest, I shared my thoughts as a developer who cares about the importance of code quality, as someone who as worked directly work Automattic’s theme team, and as someone who is highly aware of the problems with WordPress themes. Continue reading

How To Get Started with WordPress Plugin Development

September 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I mentioned that I’m often asked by aspiring WordPress Developers is how to get started within the community. After all, it’s active, there are a lot of people, and there are various ways to contribute.

One thing that seems to be a common thread is that developers often come wanting to know how to develop themes or develop plugins. If they’re interested in both, their interest still seems to lean in one of the two areas.

That said, the same challenge exists: How do you get started with WordPress Plugin Development?

Comment Images For WordPress 1.5

September 6, 2012 / Tom

Comments are closed on this post. The official discussion thread can be found on the project's post.

Comment Images

Yesterday, I published another update to Comment Images For WordPress. This was a minor update, but it covered an issue that several users had contacted me about with regards to how images were rendering in their comment feed.

Unit Testing in WordPress – A Review

September 6, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last month, I published two articles on Unit Testing in WordPress. Specifically, I discussed the practicality of unit testing and how it can better our projects, and I discussed the theory of unit testing to give a little bit of background and context of where it came from, why it matters, and a methodology for doing it.

In my most recent article on Unit Testing in WordPress, I provide a short quiz to help you review the material.

How To Prevent a Page From Being Deleted in WordPress

September 5, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you're experienced with programmatically creating pages, you may wish to skip down to the code.

I’m currently working on two applications that I’m building on top of WordPress (of which I hope to share once they’re complete).

Both projects have views – basically pages with templates – that need to be created when the application is installed and the pages aren’t meant to be deleted.

Though I’ve covered how to programmatically create a post in WordPress, I thought I’d share a quick example of how you can programmatically prevent a page from being deleted in WordPress, too.