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Separation of Concerns with Queries and Helper Functions

[…] the nature of your project)? After all, it’s all code, right? Separation of Concerns: Queries and Helpers For those who have built more complicated themes (or even plugins), there’s a significant chance that you’ve had to write custom queries by using `WP_Query`, `WP_User_Query`, or `$wpdb`. Even if you haven’t done that, there’s a chance […]

A Rule of Thumb for WordPress Partials

[…] taking advantage of it as much as we should in order to create more reusable code on the front end of WordPress themes (or views or WordPress plugins). According to the Codex, the function should be used when we need to: Load a template part into a template (other than header, sidebar, footer). But […]

Filtering wp_title and Why This Matters

[…] of a page. Not much to it, right? But it’s also one of the tags that can be abused which can cause problems especially as it relates to plugins. Filtering wp_title Matters First, the default use case for wp_title is quite simple. It’s easy enough to add that tag, declare the separate, and how you […]

WordPress Settings API Wrapper? No Thanks.

[…] about the Settings API, but to give some background that I have some experience in working with the API both in actual projects – be it themes, plugins, and applications – as well as in an educational sense. To that end, I’m familiar with the pain that the majority of people feel when working […]

I’m Officially Looking For Beta Testers For ‘Mayer’

[…] menu, a few social icons, a few customizable colors, and support for some of the latest features in WordPress 3.8 as well as a couple of well-known plugins, and more. Everything is managed via the WordPress Theme Customizer such that when you click Activate, you’re ready to write. That’s it. No theme options. No […]

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