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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.

Don’t Feed The Trolls (or What I’ve Learned About Negativity on The Internet)

September 3, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I commented on a blog post on the Mika Epstein’s blog – also known (or perhaps more commonly known) as @Ipstenu – on Handling Negatives.

In the article, Mika talks about the fun that comes with developing plugins, themes, and generally any product where customers can share their thoughts with you. And if it isn’t obvious by the title, she covers how to handle negative feedback.

It was a good read and fun discussion and it definitely rings true for anyone who is an open source developer, but I think that it rings true for anyone who’s an aspiring developer, photographer, videographer, blogger, and so on.

So, I thought I’d share my thoughts on the pervasive negativity on the Internet and how it’s hit home for me.