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Personal opinions and how-to’s that I’ve written both here and as contributions to other blogs.

Include a WordPress Theme Style Guide

September 8, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

In a previous post, I questioned whether or not we should exclude a WordPress theme style guide from our themes when releasing them to our customers.

On the one hand, I think that a case can be made that we should exclude them. In short, I said that:

Offering up a style guide that helps users deviate in any way from the core design, the one that’s created from a level of expertise, is something I think isn’t worth creating.

But there’s another side to all of this. Specifically, what if the theme itself is just one component that’s part of an organizations overall brand?

Working with the WordPress Media Uploader

September 6, 2014 / Tom

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Though I’ve talked about working with the WordPress media uploader in previous posts, I’m currently working through a series on Tuts+ that takes you through the process of incorporating the WordPress media uploader into your own plugin.

This post is going to serve as the landing page for the series of articles, but if you’re a beginner then this series should be for you.

Exclude a WordPress Theme Style Guide

September 5, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to WordPress themes, one of the things that I used to think should be more common was the idea of style guides.

You know what I’m talking about: The documents that are either included with or ship with a theme that guide you on the typography, image sizes, video sizes, and other collateral to make sure that you use the theme exactly as it’s been designed to be used.

In other words, it prevents you from making the theme look ugly.

But are they really needed?

Making Anonymous Functions Maintainable

September 3, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Obviously, the majority of the content that I write for the site deals with WordPress in someway, but there are times where I talk a bit about JavaScript, related libraries, and so on.

The Face of Anonymous Functions

Generally speaking, a lot of the JavaScript that’s written in the context of WordPress is done using jQuery because it’s the library that ships with the core applications, it’s tried and true, and its a good fit for a lot of the DOM manipulation that happens in themes and in plugins.

But one of the things that I’ve begun to notice over the past few years is that writing maintainable JavaScript (using jQuery or not) gets a bit more difficult when using anonymous functions.

Let’s Tilt The Pods Framework Conference!

September 1, 2014 / Tom

For those of you who aren’t familiar, the Pods Framework, it’s a relatively simple concept that introduces some really neat, advanced features into WordPress.

Pods Framework Homepage

Straight from the website:

The goal was to create an interface and PHP codebase to easily create, extend, and manage content types within WordPress. While the normal WordPress content architecture is limited to the built-in tables, a primary feature of Pods allows you to base content types off of their own custom tables designed around each content types’ needs.

Neat, right? What’s even cooler is that the Pods development team is hosting their very first conference this October in DFW.