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

Planning For 2014 WordPress Courses

November 4, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

As we enter the final two months of the year, one of the things that I like to do is take time to look back at some of the things I set out to accomplish in January, evaluate what I’ve done – for better or worse – and then begin making plans for the coming year.

One of the things that I did this year that I really enjoyed was host a course aimed at helping you to improve your WordPress development skills.

Overall, the course had a greater turn out than I was expecting, resulted in some good conversation in our back channel, and also seeded some great ideas for future courses.

So I was continue to ramp up Pressware, one of the things that I’m looking to do next year is to offer more online courses and material for those who want to improve their WordPress development chops in certain areas.

Pricing WordPress Plugins (or “The Dangers of The App Store Model”)

October 23, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to pricing WordPress plugins, this isn’t exactly new territory. In fact, I’d say when it comes to pricing any online service or product, there are already tried and true ways that prove to be useful given certain scenarios.

It’s basic economics, I suppose.

So this post isn’t so much about various ways to go about pricing WordPress plugins, but what opportunities we have as developers, designers, companies, and so on as the WordPress landscape continues to change.

Symbolic Links with WordPress: Working With Nested Directories in Repositories

October 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

I – along with a number of other contributors – have been working hard to close out issues and prepare the next version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

Sure, I’m excited, but while working on this particular plugin, I realized that for anyone who does work with a WordPress plugins either via git or Subversion, that you may be working with a mess of directories while trying to develop the thing.

It’s nothing that a symbolic link can’t fix, but first, let me explain the problem.

ManageWP.org For Community-Curated News

October 17, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the problems of trying to keep up with all of the various news outlets as it relates to WordPress is finding the right sources. I mean, there’s Twitter accounts, blog subscriptions, blog aggregators, podcasts, and so on.

Personally, one of the best blogs that I’ve found for curating content is Post Status – it has a healthy balance of links from around the community, and one person’s commentary on some of the larger issues. A good read for sure!

But one of the things that the WordPress community has been lacking for sometimes is a Hacker News-esque site where stories can be contributed, voted, commented, shared, and so on.

In short, a full on community-driven-and-curated site of WordPress-based content for those who are specifically interested in, well, WordPress.

Maintain The WordPress Admin Look and Feel (Except When You Don’t)

October 16, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to building custom WordPress applications, plugins, or themes, one of the things that I’m a big proponent of doing is maintaining the native WordPress admin look and feel.

That is to say that I am not a fan of introducing option pages or other elements that deviate from the styles that WordPress core provides.

Case in point: Theme settings pages should match the same theme as the rest of the settings pages in WordPress. There shouldn’t be any major deviation in color scheme, font, or the way certain elements function. By that, I mean tabs should work without any fancy animation, and so on.

But there are times when modifying core user interface components that enhance the experience and that do deviate slightly from the core native WordPress core styling.

In those cases, is deviating from WordPress core acceptable?