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Yesterday, I gave a talk at WordPress Suffolk, called "Introduction to Using Coding Standards in your WordPress Project". While I've spoken in a panel at a WordCamp, and given talks at meetups before, …
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Developers know that duplicate code is a bad thing. Making changes to many areas of a project for it to stay consistent is an opportunity for bugs to creep in, and an unnecessary waste of time. For …
When a plugin adds one or more custom post types (CPTs), a nice little addition is to give post type counts of the entries on the dashboard, as a summary, where the number of posts and pages is …
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I really like using Git and GitHub to develop my plugins and contribute to other projects. I like being able to make cheap branches with 10-20 characters on the command-line. I like being able to make …
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The WP_Styles class in WordPress allows for a few extra bits of fine-tuning via the extra property, which is amended by calling add_data( $handle, $key, $value ) method on the global $wp_styles. …
Over time, Internet Explorer (IE) is getting better at rendering web pages how we want them, but while IE7 and earlier versions still have a (fast-fading) grip, we sometimes still need to provide …
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