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Seeing athletes who’ve trained for a half decade just to put on a few minute (or in rare cases an hour) long performance is breathtaking. To see hours and hours of effort over weeks, months, and years culminate to a brief moment in front of the camera is awe-inspiring.
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I am appalled by the number of people who work with WordPress for a living but don’t use it outside of work.
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When I work with new software developers, more often than not I find myself urging patience over expedience.
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A message in my inbox this week asked for help removing jQuery from the front-end of a site. In this particular case, jQuery wasn’t being used and just slowed down the page.
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The WordPress community has been abuzz recently about codes of conduct and behavioral standards – particularly at WordCamps. It’s been an interesting conversation, filled with passionate arguments on both sides. Not much progress has been seen at all, though.
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As cool as the new post revisions feature might be, the luster of the shiney new feature has begun to fade.
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At the moment, there is no way to query posts in WordPress based on the condition of having or not having a shortcode. Such an ability would be hugely useful to both themes and plugins – should we add it to core?
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I wanted to take my own advice on fighting the post-conference high. I have 5 cool ideas I want to investigate over the next few months. Your job is to let me know whether or not they’re worth it and, if so, hold me accountable to reporting back later.
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Even if your site is browsed over HTTPS, it can be insecure if any assets (images, scripts, styles) are transferred over an HTTP connection. This will trigger a “mixed content” warning in the browser that many will brush off as unimportant. The warning can be a major issue for some sites, though, and I want…
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Last year, I had the opportunity to present at jQuery Portland about unit testing. It was my first non-WordPress speaking event, and it was incredible!