Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Category Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific category archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for category archives.
This means that if you have a set of articles under one category, you can mark one to always appear at the top of the category archive.
Tag Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific tag archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for tag archives.
This means that if you have a set of articles under one tag, you can mark one to always appear at the top of the tag archive.
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I’ve done my fair share of work with WP_Query this week – it’s definitely been an exercise in education, but when an employee of Automattic comments and offers advice, it’s worth listening
But I wanted to keep the conversation going for the benefit of other developers.
As such, I wanted to reblog this talk by lead WordPress developer and Audrey Capital technologist Andrew Nacin in which he discusses the various topics surrounding WordPress queries, hooks, and so on in order guide others in understanding WP_Query.
For those who are experienced with the Settings API, you may wish to skip down to the core problem.
I’m currently building a web application where WordPress is serving as the core framework. I’ve discussed this before and Matt covered this in State of the Word 2012 as something that will become more common as WordPress grows in popularity.
So WordPress doesn’t necessarily have an MVC or MVVM or whatever design pattern, but it offers its own method for how data models, business logic, and other necessary components should be created.
I’m using the Settings API to create a model that represents a user in the application. Essentially, it will wrap the core WordPress user model, but I have to introduce some additional attributes and ultimately create relationships with other models that WordPress doesn’t natively support.
Anyway, I’m writing unit tests for everything that’s going into the application and I hit an interesting point when it came to unit testing the validation functions.
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