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Another WordPress Podcast?

October 19, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of my favorite things to do when going on a run or a long drive is to queue up a few podcasts and listen to them. Generally speaking, most of the podcasts that I listen to are directly related to things I’m interested in and/or interested in learning more about.

Then again, isn’t that what everyone listens to?

With that said, I can honestly say that I’m not familiar with a significant number of high quality WordPress podcasts. In fact, the one’s I’m most aware of are published by WPCandy, and Jeff at WPTavern (on which I had to pleasure speaking last year).

I have an idea for another type of WordPress podcast, but I’m wondering if there’s room for it, or if the reason there are so few is because there’s so little interest.

My Strategy For Organizing JavaScript in WordPress

October 17, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Yesterday, I shared my strategy for using LESS in WordPress and enjoyed the comments that followed. In that post, I also mentioned that I have a similar strategy that I use to maintain my JavaScript files.

This particular aspect of development is one that I’m still experimenting with; however, there are certain aspects of it that have remained constant.

To follow up with yesterday’s post, I thought I’d share several things that I’ve consistently done that have improved development as well as some of the things that I’m currently doing that are proving to be useful.

With that said, here’s my current strategy for organizing JavaScript in WordPress.

My Strategy For Using LESS in WordPress

October 16, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I shared my thoughts on Going Above and Beyond The WordPress Coding Standards. In one of the comments, K. Adam White asked how I manage my LESS files and my JavaScript files.

Though I manage them similarly, I think that each type of file is deserving of its own post, so I wanted to start by sharing how I’ve been using LESS in WordPress.

Writing PHP The Right Way

October 15, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

PHP The Right Way

Last week, I wrote two articles discussing code quality when working on WordPress-specific projects:

Both of the articles lead to good comments, links, and thoughts from you guys. Though many of us are familiar with the WordPress Coding Standards, they don’t cover everything.

Rachel Baker shared a link to PHP The Right Way – a solid resource for writing PHP-based code when the coding standards leave something to be desired.

Two Tools I Use For Testing Mobile and Responsive WordPress Projects

October 12, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For developers, the terms “mobile” and “responsive” are already a bit cliche. It doesn’t really matter though, right? They’re here to stay which means that part of our job is to test mobile WordPress projects as best as we can.

Because mobile devices render content different, there are two aspects to the problem:

Some have browsers that are powerful enough to render sites just as they would on a desktop, and thus will need responsive layouts.
Users who don’t have responsive-sites use plugins such as WPTouch to give their site mobile capability which is essentially an entire other site.

This means that we, as developers, are responsible for testing:

Responsive-ready projects
Sites on which users have installed some of our work – like a plugin – that may not be compatible with, say, WPTouch.

On top of that, we do development on localhost rather than a publicly accessible environment so it can be cumbersome to have to deploy a project and get an environment setup just to go through the process of testing a site or a project only to rinse and repeat until we get it fixed.

Thankfully, it really isn’t that complicated. Here are two tools that I use to test mobile WordPress projects: