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

WordPress Ajax API Example

This plugin is no longer maintained; however, you can still view the source on GitHub.

As a developer, one of the challenges of working with WordPress as a platform is that finding information isn’t always easy. Sure, the Codex is a fantastic resource, but it lacks in a few areas.

On the other hand, it’s relatively easy to google for examples on how to do almost anything you’d like with WordPress, but these examples can often be of poor quality – just because something works doesn’t mean that it’s done correctly.

As I begin to shift my focus to talking more about WordPress development, I hope to be able to share a few thoughts on how to achieve certain tasks using the best practices with the WordPress API.

In recent weeks, I’ve been doing a fair amount of work using the WordPress Ajax API, so that seemed like a good place to start.

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PHPUnit, WordPress, and MAMP

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:

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

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

Meeting Matt Mullenweg

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

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

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