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Articles, tips, and resources for WordPress-based development.
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a course that walks beginners through how to learn to write WordPress plugins. Specifically, the course is available via Envato and is called an Introduction To WordPress Development.
So what all does the course cover? Continue reading
There’s a lot that can be said – both good and bad – as it relates to those who work within the confines of WordPress.
Sure, there are those who spend our days building things for others and who don’t generally converse with the rest of us via whatever social network we prefer, but there’s also a lot of us that do chat daily.
And though the conversations aren’t always as pleasant as they could be (but what conversations are?), one thing that WordPressers (is that what they’re called?) are exceptionally good at doing is coming together for a common cause to help someone go further in their career.
Case in point: Follow along with what’s recently happened with Julie Kuehl and her desire to become a better WordPress contributor.
When working on custom solutions for others – be it for themes, plugins, or some other extension for WordPress – one of the things I think is important is to make sure the Dashboard has the same look and feel as the rest of the native components of WordPress.
That is, I dislike and I disagree when developers and designers deviate from the core WordPress look and feel.
But even for those who try to adhere to using the right elements in the right place and for those who try to stick with laying out dashboard pages using the natural patterns as defined by WordPress, is our best place of reference actually using other pages that exist throughout the dashboard?
Yesterday, I was chatting with a fellow WordPress developer and, as we were reviewing some code, we came across the use of maybe_unserialize. You can read more about it in the Codex, but the short of it is this:
Unserialize value only if it was serialized.
Seems a little odd, doesn’t it? I mean, shouldn’t we know if a value has been serialized?
If you’re working on starting a business – be it a side-income, freelance, agency, or whatever – and you want to build it on top of WordPress, one of the considerations that you have to make is how to actually attain clients.
To be clear, this is not a post on client acquisition, marketing, or anything like that. That’s not the type of stuff I discuss here (nor is it my forte). If you’re really interested in that, check out my friend Curtis McHale’s blog.
Helping you answer the hard questions about your business
Instead, this is more about how you help others find you if you’re not entering the product space.
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