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A New Version of WordPress Plugin Support

June 3, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’ve written at length about the dilemma of supporting WordPress plugins and looking at various support systems both of which generated some good discussion on offering WordPress plugin support.

Over the past few months, I’ve been [slowly] mapping out exactly where I want to take the direction of the work that I do on plugins (as well as other projects), and how I want to offer support.

Last week, I took the first step and began directing all of the support requests for my current plugins into my inbox.

The WordPress Register Activation Hook

May 28, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

For those of you who have been following development of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, you’ll recall that I previously included the `register_activation_hook` and `register_deactivation_hook` calls within the the class itself.

In the latest version of the Boilerplate, they’ve been removed outside of the context of the class and into a separate file. Last week, I received a great comment asking why this decision was made:

I have this one question – why plugin activation/deactivation hooks are registered outside the constructor (as they were in v1.0) ?

I thought it would be better to discuss the decision in a blog post rather than in a lengthy comment.

Come Celebrate The WordPress 10 Year Anniversary in Atlanta!

May 27, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Unless you’ve been working to avoid anything and everything related to WordPress over the past month or so, then you already know that we’re about to celebrate the WordPress 10 Year Anniversary.

The neat thing is that meetups are happening all of the world tonight in honor of our favorite publishing platform.

In fact, my team and I are hosting the Atlanta meetup at the 8BIT / WP Daily Office.

Learn WordPress Development with Curtis McHale

May 24, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

On this blog, I spend a significant amount of time talking about WordPress plugin development. It’s not that I dislike theme development, obviously, but I just don’t spend as much time working on them as I do plugins.

Regardless, I often receive questions that are generally “where do I learn WordPress development?” And that’s always a hard question to answer because we all have different learning styles.

To oversimplify it and distill it down into two methods, I’d say that:

Some learn best by doing
Some learn best by reading

Personally, I learn best by doing. This isn’t to say that I don’t actually read books, articles, sites, etc., but I have to put into practice what I’ve read, bang my head against the keyboard in order to decipher error messages (a common strategy, of course), and then move on to the next topic.

Not everyone is like that.

But still, the question remains: where can someone learn WordPress Development?

A Better WordPress Planet Plugin

May 24, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Whenever you first install WordPress, one of the widgets that’s first displayed on the main page of the dashboard is the Other WordPress News widget (which actually used to be referred to as WordPress Planet). This widget has been present for as long as I can remember and is basically an aggregator of a number of different WordPress blogs.

Kinda cool, right?

If you’re someone who spends the majority of their time working in the WordPress dashboard, it’s a solid option for making sure that you don’t miss a beat of news when working with WordPress.

The thing, some have found that the feeds that populate the feed doesn’t do justice to the blogging ecosystem that exists within the WordPress blogging community. It’s not that the provided posts are bad, it’s just that they lack some of the new comers.

Enter A Better Planet.