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

Am I Using Sass in WordPress? Yes and No.

November 20, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

After talking about my post-Standard plans yesterday, I received several questions – some on Twitter, some via email – about my use of LESS rather than Sass since Sass is going into WordPress core.

@tommcfarlin Any thoughts on switching to Sass since its going into core?

— Tom Harrigan (@TomHarrigan) November 19, 2013

It’s a good question, to be sure, and it’s one I’ve thought about since this ticket in Trac. Since I’ve been using LESS for over a year in various projects, I’ve had to decide how I want to move forward with development of those projects and future projects, as well.

How To Setup a Custom Grunt Task For WordPress

November 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Now that WordPress 3.8 is in development, now is a good time to look into contributing a patch.

But seriously, if you’re looking into contributing to the codebase, then it’s important to be familiar with two things:

Where to grab the source code for the current release
How to use Grunt on your local machine to kick off the build process

Once you’ve gotten those two things setup, you can actually setup customized Grunt tasks (via your own options) that will help test the work that you’re doing without kicking off the entire process, a part of the process, or testing individual files.

The Paralyzing Fear of Committing To Open Source Code

November 15, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I think scares people off from committing to open source projects is the fear of “I don’t know where to start.”

Sure, there are other reasons as well:

“I can’t make the IRC/chat/AOL/whatever meetings.”
“I don’t understand half of what the others are talking about.”
“I only know how to work with [any given language].”
“I don’t think that I have enough experience.”
…and so on.

Honestly, you can rationalize your way out of anything that you’re afraid to do with a reason for which most people can’t fault you.

But if you’re even mildly interested in committing to an open source project – or, more specifically – helping out with WordPress, then I highly urge you do so.

Setting Up Grunt For WordPress

November 14, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

With the WordPress 3.8 development cycle underway, I thought it might be worth sharing how you can go about setting up Grunt for WordPress development on your local machine.

The reason for this is because WordPress is now using Grunt, JSHint, and a number of other utilities to help automate tasks, and if you’re looking to contribute to certain parts (not all, mind you) core, then these are the tools that you’re going to need – especially if you’re working on any tickets under the Build Tools component.

Magic Quotes and PHP: Parsing Automagically Escaped Data

November 13, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

As far as building projects on or for WordPress is concerned, one of the things that we have to keep in mind is the minimum version of PHP required to run WordPress itself. And at the time of this writing, the minimum required version of 5.2.4.

Of course, if you know your project is going to run on a newer version of PHP, and you have control over that environment, then obviously you have the freedom to write code against that version; however, if you’re building something that’s going to be used across the board for any of the many hosting environments, then you’ve got to take that into consideration.

I mention this, because there have been a number of times when I’ve been working on a particular feature of a project, and I’ve had to reference the PHP manual to see if the given feature of the language is supported by the minimum current version.