Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
Last March, I wrote a post on How To Include a Page Template in a WordPress Plugin. The post and the associated code was a proof-of-concept that was never intended to be used in production environments.
But since then, I’ve received a few pull requests and have implemented some additional changes that have brought this plugin up to a stable `1.0.0` that I believe is capable of being used in a more stable setting.
Now that all the rage that responsive design has become a bit more common place in our day-to-day work, I think it’s worth sharing how to test for responsive design.
Specifically, this is how I think a lot of us has historically tested for responsive design:
Testing Responsive Design
It’s funny because it’s true, right?
But here’s the thing: Is this really a viable use case for properly testing responsive design?
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate has been a bit of a pet project of mine a little over the past two years.
In that time, it’s grown from something that I was using to jumpstart my own plugin development efforts into a more mature boilerplate that provides a significant number of features specifically to help developers get started with best practices in developing WordPress plugins.
However, that maturity has happened not because I’m the one who has been constantly contributing to the project, but because it has received so many awesome pull requests and discussions from others.
And with my getting ready to release `2.6.0` of the Boilerplate, I’m looking for one final push!
On March 14, 2011, I released the first version of the jQuery Konami Code as part of a project that I was finishing up. The project itself is no longer active; however, the jQuery Konami Code has been sitting in GitHub ever since.
Earlier this week, I merged the first pull request that the plugin has received (thanks to Stephen Hill!) which introduced a number of improvements.
Next, I spent some time cleaning up the demo code, cleaning up the actual project directory, and making a few other improvements with the help of JSLint.
About six days ago, I released Category Sticky Post 2.0 that resolving a few bug fixes, and that introduced the following features:
This morning, I just released Category Sticky Post 2.1.0.
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