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

PHPUnit, WordPress, and MAMP

June 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

I’ve begun using PHPUnit, WordPress, and MAMP to introduce unit testing to my theme and plugin development. Obviously, this requires an installation of PHPUnit and the WordPress testing framework. Because I use MAMP for local development, I had to do some additional customization to get the frameworks setup.

Here are the steps necessary to install PHPUnit and the WordPress Tests on Mac OS X using MAMP:

June 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creative-coding/data-sanitization-and-validation-with-wordpress/

February 13, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/41988/redeclare-change-slug-of-a-plugins-custom-post-type/42164#42164

Meeting Matt Mullenweg

February 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the past couple of years, I’ve done quite a bit of development on the WordPress Platform. Specifically, I…

Work with a stellar team who builds a number of products for the platform
Blog regularly for Envato
Maintain a premium plugin (with more on the way)
Authored the Widget Boilerplate and the Plugin Boilerplate

This past weekend, my team and I had a chance to hang out at WordCamp Atlanta. Overall, we had a great time – the meetup was especially fun as it was great to chat with a number of different bloggers, developers, designers, and teams that are all active in the WordPress Community. Continue reading

Create a WordPress Upload Meta Box

September 27, 2011 / Tom / 0 Comments

This post was updated on March 22, 2013. Please review the code changes below.

WordPress makes it pretty easy to capture additional information with your posts through the use of custom meta boxes. Adding checkboxes, select options, textareas, radio buttons, and other input elements are easy.

But giving users the ability to upload files from a post screen requires a little more work.

If you’re not interested in tapping into the Media Uploader, then here’s how you can programmatically create a WordPress upload meta box.