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WP DB Migrate Pro – A Discount and a Giveaway!

May 6, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Brad Touesnard is the guy that’s behind several popular WordPress plugins one of which is the WP App Store, the other being WP DB Migrate Pro.

To say that he’s an accomplished and respected WordPress developer would be somewhat of an understatement.

He’s recently released the lastest version of WP DB Migrate Pro which I had the pleasure of participating in the beta test.

Generally speaking, this is the easiest plugin for migrating WordPress databases from local servers to remote servers and back again.

Features aside, Brad’s been kind enough to support a giveaway and a coupon code specifically for you guys.

Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills

May 3, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

About a month and a half ago, I was hanging out at WordCamp Atlanta and I was speaking on the topic of how to Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills.

To summarize, I covered the following topics:

The video has finally been published on WordCamp.tv and I’m sharing it as well as the accompanying slides below, as well.

How To Programmatically Populate a WordPress Template

May 2, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

The title of this post is somewhat misleading as I’m not actually sharing how to programmatically populate a WordPress template – instead, I’m walking through the process of populating a page that also has a page template applied to it.

Anyway, creating WordPress templates is easy business:

Create the template file in the theme directory
Give the template file the proper header comments
Fill out the template with the proper markup

Back in March, I shared a proof-of-concept plugin for including a template file in a plugin. If you browse through the comments, note that there’s a lot of discussion on how to do it, why one way is better than the others, and so on.

But as I’ve continued to work on a project in which I include templates in plugins, I’ve also been working on populating template-based pages with content from HTML files.

Here’s how I’ve been working to programmatically populate a WordPress template.

WordPress For Rapid Application Development

April 29, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I talked about using WordPress as an application platform – once again, even – but Ted Waller brought up an interesting comment that I’ve not heard (at least here on this blog) that I wanted to discuss a bit more.

Specifically, Ted said:

Whether or not it’s wise to use it as the final application framework, I do think it’s very good for rapid prototypes of web apps.

And what really caught my attention about this particular comment was that I’ve not often heard of WordPress as being a tool for rapid application development (or RAD).

The thing is, RAD – for whatever reason – has often been used whenever someone is talking about prototyping an application or doing some type of development, but nothing that’s seriously ready for prime time, for the enterprise, or for whatever term you’d opt to use.

But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered:

Is rapid application development misunderstood?
Is WordPress truly good for RAD or is it the best of both worlds?

Adding a Custom Post Type To An Existing Menu

April 25, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Up until this point, I’ve never worked on a project or done any type of work that required a custom post type to be added to an existing menu in the WordPress dashboard.

For the most part, I’m generally of the mindset that custom post types should:

Exist as top level menus
Should be added at the bottom of the WordPress dashboard menu

This mentality is primarily motivated by the fact that I see the core WordPress menu options as first-class citizens in the dashboard, custom post types as being second-class citizens.

That’s just a rule of thumb, though. There are always exceptions.

But there are also times where custom post types could be treated as, say, third-class citizens where they should be integrated with an existing menu be it a core menu or another custom post type menu.

Luckily, it’s trivially easy to add a custom post type as a menu item to an existing menu.