Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
When it comes to integrating MailChimp into Rails applications, Hominid is my gem of choice. It’s implementation is relatively straightforward and it stays true to the MailChimp API.
I rarely have issues with it, but I recently needed to funnel users into specific groups which were part of a list and hit a bit of snag with the merge vars parameter of the listSubscribe function. Continue reading
One of the advantages that comes with building various products for WordPress is getting to meet a lot of different people working on interesting things. Some are developers, some are bloggers, some are contributors, some are editors – there’s a wide variety of people using the platform in many different ways.
If you’re acting as an editor, you have a number of responsibilities: you have to curate content, create, edit, and schedule posts, work with a team of authors, and, in some cases, make sure that your server and associated environment is up-to-date.
If you’re an editor, WordPress leaves a bit to be desired when working with a team of authors. Author Admin is a premium plugin that attempts to mitigate that problem by adding improved author administration for WordPress.
Collapsible Menus is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create a collapsible menu using nested, unordered lists.
In addition to the Widget Boilerplate, the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate has also received some updates within the last few months:
Over the last few months, the WordPress Widget Boilerplate has received a number of pull requests, merges, and improvements.
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