Category: Projects (Page 16 of 33)

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

The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2.6.0 is Now Available

November 1, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

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Today, I am absolutely stoked to announce the next major release of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

I discussed some of the things I’ve learned – and some of the changes that have been implemented in a recent post – but I couldn’t be happier with this release.

Some quick statistics:

The last official release was on May 17, 2013. We had one minor release in July that I opted to fold into this release and officially tag as `2.6.0`.
We’re now working to implement semantic versioning into the Boilerplate.
The milestone for `2.7.0` is already being planned.
The project now includes 241 commits and 10 contributors

This is by far the largest commit and set of changes that have gone into the Boilerplate since it has been released. You can grab it here, but read on for more details!

How To Include a Page Template in a WordPress Plugin

October 30, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

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.

How To Properly Test Responsive Design

October 29, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

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The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Unpublished

Preparing For The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2.6.0

October 28, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

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!

jQuery Konami Code 1.2.0 Now Available

October 11, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

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.