Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Introducing Ajax in the WordPress Dashboard is a relatively easy thing to do as WordPress provides a standard set of steps to follow. Unfortunately, it’s not always done correctly.
In my latest set of articles over at WPTuts+, I give a Primer on Ajax in the WordPress Dashboard. Continue reading
When I was in college, I had a year’s worth of classes where we did all of our homework assignments and projects in C.
I specifically remember hearing that if a person couldn’t grasp the concept of pointers and their associated functions, then they may not be best suited for programming. Although I think that understanding this is valuable, I’m not sure I fully agree. I digress.
Every now and then, I come across a new blog post that is breaking down pointers in C. They’re usually of the following flavor:
Today, I came across another post doing the same thing. For what it’s worth, I think it’s well-written and I’m actually in favor of keeping this information current in the blogosphere.
But it did get me thinking about “WordPress pointers,” or what is WordPress’ equivalent of pointers?
For those of you who are interested, you can download the plugin though I no longer maintain this.
Roughly four months ago, I released a premium plugin that aimed to improve author administration in WordPress. Today, I’m officially ending development on Author Admin..
Similar to WP Social Icons, I’m more concerned with narrowly focusing my efforts on projects that are more closely aligned with the problems I’d like to attempt to solve.
That said, there are a few things that I did learn while working on and maintaining the project.
To skip the background on this issue, then you can skip down to the technical explanation.
While working on the latest version of Standard For WordPress.com, Michael – who covers QA at 8BIT – caught an interesting problem with how our breadcrumb navigation and archive page templates were working (or weren’t working):
When I shared some of my thoughts on building Single Post Message, I received some good feedback via Twitter and Email from others who enjoyed reading about the work that went into building the plugin.
Though my approach to this particular plugin is different than that of Single Post Message, I thought I’d do the same for this just to share a slightly different perspective.
So here’s how I went about building Comment Images for WordPress:
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