Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development

Category: Projects (Page 16 of 32)

Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.

Category Sticky Post 2.1.0 – Support For Post Types

About six days ago, I released Category Sticky Post 2.0 that resolving a few bug fixes, and that introduced the following features:

  • Resolving a bug that marked the category as ‘unstuck’ when updating a post
  • Introduced a feature for disabling the category sticky border
  • Improving the coding standards of the plugin be separating the class into its own file
  • Improving the PHPDoc of the plugin

This morning, I just released Category Sticky Post 2.1.0.

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Yesterday, I share a bit about a Tumblr that was recently started focusing specifically on Developer Practices.

In short, the blog is nothing more than a collection of animated GIFs that are a humorous attempt to look the developer best practices. But based on some feedback, others want to contribute.

And I love that.

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There are two absolutely amazing things that the Internet has brought us:

  1. Animated GIFs
  2. Memes

And when you combine the two together, you get some seriously good stuff, right?

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Category Sticky Post For WordPress 2.0 Now Available

Just a little over a year ago, I released my WordPress Category Sticky Post plugin. The initial concept was simple:

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.

And not a lot has changed since the first release.

Yes, I’ve made minor improvements here and there as evidenced by the changelog, but today I’m happy to officially release the second version of the plugin.

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Beta Testing Self-Hosted WordPress Plugins

In three previous posts, I’ve mentioned that I’ve been slowly refocusing my own business to focus solely on working with WordPress. This particular focus includes:

In order to keep this momentum, albeit it very slow momentum, going, I’m looking to begin experimenting with self-hosting WordPress plugins. Specifically, I’m going to be using Auto Hosted.

And much like I did with support systems, I’m going to be evaluating it by actually, you know, using it.

But here’s the thing: I need your help.

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