Great Video on How Automattic Approaches Theme Development

Check out this great video from Philip Arthur Moore http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.03 In the video he talks about a few major approaches to creating WordPress themes: Parent and child themes Theme frameworks Starter themes From scratch You can also find a nice write up he did of the content over on the Codepoet blog. He also has … Continue reading Great Video on How Automattic Approaches Theme Development →

A function to use remove_action conditionally in your WordPress templates

Thanks to Jonathan Perez for this little function to use remove_action conditionally. Helped when I was working on a WooCommerce project.

WP Seek WordPress Search Engine API

I was happy to stumble across the site wpseek.com, which works as an all things WordPress search engine. What really impressed me though is their API, which let's you do things like get specs on a specific function or a list of all WP functions. For example using the following URL http://api.wpseek.com/?method=wordpress.getfunction&s=the_title will return a … Continue reading WP Seek WordPress Search Engine API →

How to Add WordPress Plugin AJAX to the Front-End

While working on the new Treehouse Badges plugin I had to add some AJAX on the front-end of the site to check that the profile is up to date. I found these two articles on WP Tuts pretty helpful in getting everything working: An overview of plugin AJAX on the WordPress front-end An example of … Continue reading How to Add WordPress Plugin AJAX to the Front-End →

MemberMouse is Looking Like My Next WordPress Member’s Plugin to Try

I recently came across an add for MemberMouse on WP Tuts+ After checking out the site and some of the videos, I think I might give it a shot next time I need to build a member powered site. I can say that I will probably not use MagicMembers, which I have used in the … Continue reading MemberMouse is Looking Like My Next WordPress Member’s Plugin to Try →

Smashing Article on How to Convert Static Sites to WordPress

This article from Smashing on how to move from a static site to a dynamic WordPress one is worth a read. It's pretty in depth, but that's necessary to give a practical example of the actual migration process.

Really Cool Media Gallery Plugin

EDIT: This plugin does not seem to still be available The Complete Gallery Manager for WordPress Plugin has some really cool options for displaying media galleries in WordPress, like customizable Masonry galleries. It's a premium plugin and you can find it on CodeCanyon. I haven't used it yet, but it looks really cool!

Create a Function to Create WordPress Widgets

I've taken to the practice of doing something like this whenever I need to create multiple widgets in a theme that all have the same basic parameters. function create_widget($name, $id, $description) { register_sidebar(array( 'name' => __( $name ), 'id' => $id, 'description' => __( $description ), 'before_widget' => ' ', 'after_widget' => ' ', 'before_title' … Continue reading Create a Function to Create WordPress Widgets →

WordPress Plugin That Shows You Admin Templates Markup

If you're building an admin settings page for a plugin, you should check out this plugin to get easy, copy and paste code to create all the WordPress default layouts and markup. Thanks Frank for making it so easy!

WordPress Plugin to Make Site Private During Online Development

Big thanks to Kate Mag for the Private Only plugin, which allows you to password protect a whole site (like this). If you use a live development server during your WordPress development, you should check out this plugin. It's a few steps better than just unchecking the setting that says allows search engines to find … Continue reading WordPress Plugin to Make Site Private During Online Development →