Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Articles, tips, and resources for WordPress-based development.
When it comes to displaying the date on blog posts, many WordPress themes – not all, but many – opt to display the date on the most recent post of the day, and then simply display the title and the content for the rest of the posts throughout the day.
This results in the content feed looking something like this:
But not everyone likes that. Luckily, there is an easy fix for this.
One of the things that I love to see is how people use different ways to contribute to the WordPress community. Outside of the usual theme, plugin, and application development efforts, there are also a number of blogs, sites, and podcasts (of which I should have more information on later this month, as well).
Thanks to Apple, the iTunes store, and the Newsstand application, authors are now able to publish their own magazines to the App Store.
One of the latest contributions I’ve found in the WordPress community is WordPress Hub Magazine.
This past year, I’ve participated in a number of different meetups and speaking engagements all of which are oriented around blogging, WordPress, development, or something similar.
Generally speaking, I’ve enjoyed the events that I’ve attended. I always try to keep it really laid back (I make a lot of my presentations in Paper, even), and do what I can to make the events more of a discussion rather than a lecture.
For the most part, it goes well, but yesterday was a bit of a different audience: high school students.
A few months ago, I completed a series of articles for Envato called The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API.
The purpose of the series was to walkthrough the WordPress Settings API taking a look at sections, settings, fields, and how they all fit together to properly build a WordPress project using menus, tabbed navigation, input elements, and data sanitization all of which interact properly with the WordPress database.
As part of the article, I also provided an open-source project called the WordPress Settings Sandbox that was to serve as a working demonstration of the WordPress Settings API. Continue reading
It’s a day after Thanksgiving so all of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are going on – always fun to check out some of the neat deals online.
But since the end of Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season, there are also some neat projects that others have been working on. Sure, it’s common to see WordPress themes, plugins, and other seasonal assets be released, but here’s a neat project that the guys over at Square One have been working on specifically for WordPress for Christmas.
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