·
Today at WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the plan for the upcoming 3.7 and 3.8 releases of WordPress. In a nutshell, they will be small, developed in parallel, and (assuming all goes to plan) both released by the end of 2013. This is hugely exciting! The plan for these two releases makes sense and
·
Whether or not you make it to WordCamp Seattle, you too can benefit from merging Grunt into your WordPress development workflow! A best-practice in web development is to keep JS and CSS to a minimum by merging multiple files and minifying that file so it downloads quickly. This is a tedious process for many, and
·
Captchas are a terrible user experience. They put the onus of spam protection on the visitor filling out the form and, personally, show me how lazy you are as a site administrator. There are a hundred different ways you can protect your site from spam on the server side – why would you forego these
·
As computers continue to develop and grow, so do the things they’re capable of; just about any laptop capable of playing FarmVille can also run a sophisticated astrophysics simulation. In college, it took me a few minutes with a room-sized supercomputer to derive the Chandrasekhar Limit. The same derivation can now run in JavaScript, embedded
·
Update 7/31/2013—The following review is of an older version of the plugin. As of the newer 2.0 branch, many of the issues below have been resolved. A friend of mine directed me to a new spam fighting plugin via a retweet today. My Latest Favorite Plugin: Spam Free WordPress http://t.co/3tQ3a573Ls — SureFire Web Services (@SureFireWebServ)
·
When I first started hosting my own sites, I had no idea what caching was or why it was important. Then I wrote a couple of popular blog posts, and my server crashed. Fast forward a few years, and I’m running a few different websites on a few different servers. Some get a steady stream
·
I was first introduced to Plupload when I was building websites in .Net. I had some great HTML5 file upload tools that worked wonders in my browser of choice, but most of my colleagues (and about 80% of our clients) were using a browser that didn’t support the API. I used Plupload as a reliable
·
Ever since I was a victim of digital identity theft in college, I’ve kept a keen eye on data security. I use long passwords that mix case, numbers, and punctuation. I impose ridiculous must-change-passwords-every-6-months rules on myself. And I never, ever write my passwords down for others to see. But still, I feel like things
·
As a moderator on the WordPress Stack Exchange, I end up spending a lot of time on the site. I see lots of great questions, lots of not-so-great questions, and several you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me questions. But the question I see the most often frustrates me: How do I remove WordPress’ jQuery and use Google’s CDN version instead?
·
I’m a big fan of the “distraction free writing mode” within WordPress. For those of you who haven’t seen it – launch a new post in WordPress and click the full-screen icon on the editor. Your mind will be blown. The sidebars, admin interface, and all of the other UI cruft of the WordPress interface drops