News & Articles
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Tax Day Release: WordPress 3.9 to Drop on April 15 (wptavern.com)
The date for the WordPress 3.9 release has now been set for April 15th, which coincides with tax day in the US. American developers may want to do their taxes early, because the 3.9 release schedule will be keeping everyone busy. Tentative dates for the 4.0 and 4.1 releases are mid-August and early December, respectively. -
Push Monkey: Push Notifications For WordPress In OS X Mavericks (blog.mowowstudios.com)
With the launch of OS X Mavericks, Apple also introduced a new(and we think cool) feature: Desktop Push Notifications. In short you can use the Apple Push Notifications Service to send messages to your website users, right on their Mac desktop — even when Safari isn’t running. -
Let’s Use WordPress To Help Make A Difference (www.poststat.us)
Today you have an opportunity to help people that are using WordPress to help others. I hope you’ll read this fully and consider helping. -
Matt Mullenweg Is Now Automattic’s CEO (www.poststat.us)
Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider are switching jobs at Automattic. After joining Automattic eight years ago, Toni Schneider is moving into a product-focused role within Automattic, and Matt Mullenweg is the new CEO. -
WordPress Information Architecture: Why a Beautiful Site Can Still Suck (torquemag.io)
If you’re interested in web design and development, you’ve no doubt come across web design showcase sites that are intended to show off the skills of a particular designer or technology. They are usually beautiful sites and pack in every whizz-bang CSS technique and cutting-edge JavaScript feature they can—but, from a user’s perspective, they suck. -
Data.gov Is Using WordPress and All the Code is Open Source (wptavern.com)
The US Government’s Data.gov website is a beautiful implementation of WordPress. The site provides a library of the government’s open data for anyone to use. Data.gov lets you search more than 85,000 datasets with topics ranging from agriculture to finance to public safety and everything in between.
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Tutorials
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Adding Post Pagination Attributes in WordPress (tommcfarlin.com)
If you’re interested in adding post pagination attribution attributes in WordPress specifically for single post pages, it’s relatively easy to do given that you know the proper hooks for doing so.
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8 Best jQuery Tutorials for WordPress Beginners (www.wpbeginner.com)
With these tutorials not only will you learn how to add these nifty jQuery scripts to your WordPress site, but you will also get a chance to learn jQuery a little bit, and how to use it in WordPress.
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WordPress Initialization Hooks: Benefits and Common Mistakes (wp.tutsplus.com)
In programming, initialization of data is important as it’s where we setup the prerequisites for the application such as its attributes, its required files and data, its connection to the database, and so on. In this article, we are going to take a look at the importance of WordPress initialization hooks and how they are used in various scenarios.
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Using WordPress For Web Application Development: Available Features, Part 5 – Retrieving Data (wp.tutsplus.com)
There are a few nuances that we need to consider when moving forward on retrieving data. But first, we’ll review the database, we’ll take a look at how to retrieve information, and then we’ll look at how to properly escape information before returning it to the browser.
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