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Notes From WordCamp San Francisco

August 10, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

The Internet has made the world flatter but that doesn’t mean it’s made it any easier to miss out on events that you’d like to attend, right?

Last weekend, WordCamp San Francisco – arguably the WordCamp to attend – was happening and those who are involved in WordPress in some capacity were tweeting all about the awesome things happening.

Jealousy!

In all seriousness, it was evident from the various tweets and blog posts that it was a killer time for everyone, but here’s something cool for those of us who weren’t able to attend: 23 pages of notes taken from the various sessions held throughout the weekend.

Two Ways To Optimize Adding JavaScript in the WordPress Dashboard

August 8, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Once you’ve been working on WordPress-based projects for a while, you quickly learn how to properly include stylesheets and JavaScript dependencies for the administrative dashboard or the public-facing aspect of a theme or plugin.

That is, you’re familiar with admin_enqueue_scripts and wp_enqueue_scripts.

And although these two hooks provide a way to segment the way in which scripts are loaded, it’s possible to further optimize how JavaScript dependencies are loaded by only loading them on the page that they are required.

Specifically, there are two ways that you can add JavaScript in WordPress in the dashboard:

Why Unit Testing is Important in WordPress

August 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

In June, I wrote a three part series for Envato called Introduction To WordPress Unit Testing. The series provided an overview of how to configure local environment for tests and how to begin writing basic tests.

Last month, I continued to discuss the topic by giving a case for why unit testing is important in WordPress.

WordPress User Interface Design

August 6, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For years, I’ve been using PayPal and although I don’t hate the service as much as many (in fact, I have very few complaints), I really dig Stripe for its simplicity, design, and ease of integration.

On top of that, I’ve used it in a variety of client projects but I’ve never actually done anything with it myself.

But this past weekend, I finally had the opportunity to integrate Stripe into a page on my site, and I used the WP-Stripe plugin by Noel Tock.

This morning, I tweeted the following:

for an example of #wordpress plugin interface design done right, see @noeltock's work on wp stripe. http://t.co/lAetjqot

— Tom McFarlin (@tommcfarlin) August 6, 2012

This tweet sparked an excellent conversation in WordPress user interface design.

Notes From WordCamp San Francisco

Ending Development on WP Social Icons

Two Ways To Optimize Adding JavaScript in the WordPress Dashboard

Why Unit Testing is Important in WordPress

WordPress User Interface Design