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Comment Humility For An Improved Blogging Experience

Comment Humility is one of those simple plugins available for WordPress that does one thing, does it well, and doesn’t disrupt your current workflow. Personally speaking, it’s one of those things that I don’t know why it wasn’t developed sooner (or maybe it was, and I missed it). Here’s the gist of the plugin […]

WordPress Options and Theme Modifications

[…] how we handled theme modifications (hence the function names). Then, we began to use the options table as a way to manage the various settings for our plugins.
And then we began to use the options table as an easy to way to store settings for our themes. It was like we moved the […]

Questioning WordPress Theme Design

When talking about the difference in themes and plugins, it’s common for those involved in building projects for WordPress to know that functionality is usually left to plugins and that presentation is left to themes. This doesn’t mean there isn’t some cross-pollination (or perhaps cross-contamination? :) where plugins introduce visual effects and themes offer […]

The Roles of WordPress Development

[…] both of which I think are applicable in the WordPress space. But first, it’s worth noting that many WordPress developers are people who are building themes and/or plugins. At this point in WordPress’ history, people still aren’t seeing it as something that can be used to build web applications (let alone mobile applications) so it’s […]

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