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Offering WordPress Support on Twitter? No Thanks.

Last week, I shared my problems with the WordPress plugins repository. Above all else, I’ve really enjoyed the comments that people have shared – it’s full of good ideas, I’ve had my opinions changed a bit from the initial post, and the conversation is generally respectful. For those who have been following along, you […]

How To Level Up Your WordPress Development Skills

[…] I’ll be sure to include my talk on the site, as well. Level Up Your WordPress Development Skills What’s Up? I’m a self-employed developer who primarily builds plugins and web applications using WordPress. I build plugins in order to contribute back to the WordPress economy, but also for hire so, y’know, for fun and profit. As of […]

Tipsy Social Icons Now on GitHub

[…] up Tipsy Social Icons (add filters to Icons) and then use your plugin with my next Themeforest theme.. — 🔥 Nauris (@pyronaur) February 20, 2013 Sure, all plugins in the WordPress Plugins Repository are open source by nature, but GitHub makes collaboration that much easier, so I was happy to oblige. Tipsy Social Icons on GitHub This […]

WordPress Source Control: Commit Messages

Although Automattic uses Subversion for source control both for its themes and plugins, I keep a number of my plugins in Git repositories during development. Additionally, 8BIT uses GitHub to keep track of all of our source code, issues, milestones, and so on. When it’s time to make a commit, we usually sync the […]

Use Static Variables in Plugin Bootstrap Files

[…] whereas regular variables are reinitialized every time the function fires. This means a static variable retains its value across multiple calls to the function. Static Variables and Plugins So having an static $initialized flag works like this: $initialized starts as false. When the function runs for the first time, the $initialized variable is set […]

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