Should We Delete Old Repositories? (tommcfarlin.com) Anyone that does design or development (or even writing, really) as either a hobby or for a living knows that feeling of going back and looking at their old work – and cringing.
We know that we’re making progress in our work when we look at something we once did and think “What was I doing?”
Are You Paying Attention To Gravity Forms? (chrislema.com) Here’s the thing. Just as everyone is focused on the form space – and catching up to what Gravity Forms has been doing for years, Carl and the folks at Rocket Genius have been working on…rocket science
Website Monetization by MageNet is a WordPress plugin that allows you to sell contextual ads from your pages automatically and receive payments with PayPal.
New Plugin Release: Multisite Content Copier by WPMU DEV (wpmu.org) Hot on the heels of the release of Pretty Plugins, comes Multisite Content Copier.
The latest plugin from the WPMU Dev stable, it is the perfect solution for copying posts, pages, users and even plugins across your multisite network.
Post Meta Team Introductory Meeting (make.wordpress.org) Eric Andrew Lewis started a new topic this morning on the Make WordPress Core blog to introduce a new core plugin team. The Post Meta team’s goal will be to improve the “developer’s experience from the back-end – creating input elements for meta fields in a programatic method.”
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2.6.1 is Now Available (tommcfarlin.com) This release – although a minor improvement over the last – introduces several improvements to 2.6.0, and also marks a change in the development of the project, as well as the introduction of several things that will be coming to the Boilerplate in the next several versions.
WordPress TwentyFourteen Theme: A Flawed Beauty (wpmu.org) TwentyFourteen is officially “a beautiful magazine theme“. A bold claim but there’s no doubt that visually it packs a far bigger punch than the neutral TwentyTwelve and looks far better than any of its predecessors, particular the quirky TwentyThirteen.
Stargazer: A Free Design-Specific Parent Theme for WordPress (www.wptavern.com) Justin Tadlock, creator of Theme Hybrid, released his new Stargazer parent theme to the public today. Stargazer is what Tadlock calls a “design-specific parent theme.” It’s based on the latest, not-yet-released version 2.0 of the Hybrid Core framework.
Help Test WordPress 3.8! (torquemag.io) As some of you may know, WordPress 3.8 beta 1 was released last week and the core and support teams are actively looking for testers.
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Better Know a Vulnerability: SQL Injection (ottopress.com) So here’s one common vulnerability we see in code submissions a lot: SQL Injection.SQL injection is a code injection technique, used to attack data driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution.
Add a Post Class in WordPress: The More Tag (tommcfarlin.com) WordPress’ post_class function makes it really easy to write out a variety of class names to post containers that give us a finer-level of control when working on styling WordPress posts.
But there are times in which you may want to actually add a custom class to a post (or to a single post) depending on the nature of the content of the most.
Using WordPress for Web Application Development: An Introduction (wp.tutsplus.com) In this series, we’re going to take a look at exactly what WordPress offers as it relates to building web applications, the difference in an application framework and a foundation, the features that lend themselves to building full-stack applications with WordPress, as well as how WordPress is not a silver bullet for writing software for the web.