Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
Earlier this month, I mentioned that I was looking to bring the WordPress Widget Boilerplate and the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate to 1.0. Throughout the month, I received a several pull requests most of which I merged into the projects.
I made a few changes that I’ll detail momentarily, but as of right now both WordPress Plugin Boilerplates are officially tagged as 1.0 and are available in their respective GitHub repositories.
In late 2010, I released a small jQuery plugin called Slide Note that made it easy to add sliding notifications to your website or web application. It included a variety of features such as the ability to control where it was displayed on the page, custom callbacks, and Ajax integration.
Eventually, I built a small WordPress plugin around but retired it shortly after the time required to maintain and support it exceeded the amount of time I had and, honestly, the amount of joy I was getting out of the plugin.
Anyway, I continued to maintain the jQuery plugin for sometime, but it’s time to retire that plugin, too.
A few months ago, I completed a series of articles for Envato called The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API.
The purpose of the series was to walkthrough the WordPress Settings API taking a look at sections, settings, fields, and how they all fit together to properly build a WordPress project using menus, tabbed navigation, input elements, and data sanitization all of which interact properly with the WordPress database.
As part of the article, I also provided an open-source project called the WordPress Settings Sandbox that was to serve as a working demonstration of the WordPress Settings API. Continue reading
Standard 3.2 is just around the corner!
For those of you who don’t know, I spend half my time working with my team at 8BIT working hard on both analog and digital products for bloggers.
Though I’ve discussed it in detail before, simply put: Standard is the core passion of the team and we’re committed to making it best theme for bloggers that we possibly can.
My team and 8BIT and I are currently running a Standard Theme discount from Black Friday thru Cyber Monday and here are the details:
In the same way that I’ve been working on the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, I’ve never really done a good job of handling versioning. I’ve simply closed tickets as they’ve been opened and I’ve resolved issues as I – or others – have encountered them.
Next month, I’m hoping to officially tag it and the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate as version 1.0, but I’m hoping to get a few more eyes on the code prior to doing so.
This weekend, I spent some time closing tickets, refactoring some code, and improving a few aspects of both of the boilerplates to improve its overall standard.
Here’s a run down of everything that’s been updated since the I initially launched the WordPress Widget Boilerplate:
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