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Though I’ve talked about working with the WordPress media uploader in previous posts, I’m currently working through a series on Tuts+ that takes you through the process of incorporating the WordPress media uploader into your own plugin.

This post is going to serve as the landing page for the series of articles, but if you’re a beginner then this series should be for you.

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This week, I started a new series on Tuts+ Code that walks readers through understanding type coercion.

Type Coercion

Generally speaking, the series of articles starts at the most basic level by discussing strongly typed and weakly typed languages, data types and how they work in different environments, and then begins to branch out more into how data types work within dynamically typed languages.

The main motivation for this is because people who are coming from a strongly-typed background, or those who are just getting into programming may end up finding themselves making a few mistakes especially as it relates to comparisons, conditionals, and other similar evaluations.

This series aims to mitigate that.

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One of the most difficult aspects of building any type of software is the amount of work that’s required to maintain the project after its release.

Sure, shipping an initial version is challenging and this is not to understate the amount of planning, feedback, iterating, and general work that goes into a project; however, once it’s out in the wild and more and more people begin to use it, discover bugs, hammer on it, and so on, and additional ideas for features are developed, it becomes an entirely different challenge to keep the project rolling.

And though people would argue whether or not WordPress themes (or plugins or any script-based utility, for that matter) constitutes actual software, the truth is that it’s still subject to the same rules and methodologies as different software projects.

As such, one of the challenges of theming is actually writing maintainable WordPress themes such that they can continue to be improved over time. So in my latest series for Envato, I’m writing exactly on that topic.

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A couple of weeks ago, I shared a simple plugin that added a meta box to the post editor dashboard screen that demonstrated how to display post meta data within WordPress. After it was released, I received a few questions as to how one would go about displaying this information on the frontend of a WordPress blog.

That is, how would one go about displaying the post meta data as part of the content for a single post (or post type) in WordPress.

Though I’m not necessarily a fan of doing this, I am a fan of giving other developers practical advice on how to extend existing plugins (using practices used throughout an existing plugin), and I’m also a fan of discussing why I am a fan or not a fan of doing something.

So in my latest article at Tuts+ Code, I did exactly that.

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Last week, I had the opportunity to answer a question that I’ve often gotten via email, Twitter, meetups, and so on:

How do I go about getting started with WordPress?

It’s a simple question, to be sure; however, for those of us who are actively involved within the WordPress economy – or for anyone who has been involved in any development community, then you are more than likely familiar with how easy it is to forget what it was like getting started with the platform.

To that end, I wanted to provide some practice tips for how to do exactly that for the absolutely beginner.

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