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Articles, tips, and resources for WordPress-based development.

Getting Started with Fixing WordPress Bugs

July 21, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

It’s one thing to have a local copy of the latest version of WordPress installed on your system – don’t get me wrong, it’s really cool to be able to see some of the new features – but it’s another thing to want to get involved in contributing to the codebase.

Sure, it’s completely possible to get started by trying to implement your own desired feature, but the likelihood that it’s going to be merged into core is very, very small. Those type of decisions have a process through which they undergo before being merged. Plus, that’s taking on a lot if you’re just getting started with contributing code to WordPress.

But what about trying to fix WordPress bugs? That is, what if you were to want to try to take your chances with fixing some of the existing problems with the software?

That’s a bit easier.

WordPress and Subversion: How To Check Out The Latest Code

July 20, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

There’s a lot going on as it relates to working with WordPress right now: People are discussing things ranging from dependency manage (via tools such as Composer) and talking about the up and coming REST API (which is really exciting).

I’ve also recently read that the object-oriented programming approach is just now making its way to WordPress development. Personally, I don’t fully agree with that, but I do think that there are some advanced topics that are making there way over such as inversion of control, dependency injection containers, and so on.

All of those are important things to be discussed, shared, and taught to others, for sure. But sometimes, I think that we forget that there are some basic things about WordPress that those who are just getting involved need to learn before getting into those topics.

These things include how to grab a copy of the latest version of WordPress from the trunk (let alone explaining what “trunk” – or source control – even is), how to get started with working on your first set of issues, and so on.

WordPress Trunk

This is something that I think those involved in WordPress development could do a better job of teaching. To be clear, I think some do a fantastic job. Some are also very quiet – and that’s fine, not everyone cares to blog and many people are heads down on important work.

But as much as we want people to be involved in open source, I think we should make sure people are educated as well as possible to get involved and have a clear understanding of what to do.

Opting not to share information doesn’t mean you’re greedy; however, as I’ve been thinking about the wide range of topics that exist for those who are trying to get involved in WordPress or who are looking to up their game as it relates to object-oriented programming, I thought it might be worth sharing some shorter articles on how to get started with some of these topics.

Adding TinyMCE Dependencies in WordPress

July 17, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’ve been following along with previous articles you know that over the last few days I’ve been working through a series on adding a TinyMCE button to WordPress.

Though this post isn’t exactly part of that series, it’s tangentially related and I thought it was something worth covering in case someone else stumbles across their problem in their work or if the code that shows up later in said series shows what’s up but doesn’t do a great job explaining it.

In short, when you have a JavaScript file that is a dependency on the core plugin, there’s another way of adding the dependency that does not include wp_enqueue_script.

Adding a TinyMCE Button to WordPress: The Plugin

July 16, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’re interested in adding a TinyMCE button to WordPress, then this series of articles aims to do just that. In the first post of the series, I walked through some of the basic things that need to be done in order to get started with adding a custom button.

My very own copy TinyMCE Editor. Show spectacular.

My very own copy TinyMCE Editor. So spectacular.

I laid out the file organization, the basic plugin structure, some of the foundational JavaScript, and started working on the hooks that are necessary for adding a custom button.

As it stands right now, the functions responsible for adding a new button aren’t actually defined within the context of a class much less hooked into the plugin itself. So in this post, we’ll take a look at exactly how to do exactly that.

Adding a TinyMCE Button to WordPress

July 10, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Over the years, it’s been really neat to see how the WordPress project has incorporated the TinyMCE editor into the software. That is, it’s one thing to include it into the core project, but it’s another thing to add features to it (and around it) that help improve the writing experience.

My very own copy TinyMCE Editor. So spectacular.

But as developers, we’re often tasked with introducing another feature into the software. Sometimes this comes in the form of adding something like custom taxonomies or custom post types.

Other times, it comes in the form of having to introduce a new button to the TinyMCE editor. When you do that, you’re working simultaneously with the WordPress API and you’re working with the TinyMCE editor API.

Over the next few posts, I’m going to outline the process that I take whenever this is needed. Ultimately, this will aim to provide a foundation and set of steps that can be followed if you need to do the same thing, as well.