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Last time, I argued in favor of the Singleton pattern in WordPress. Singletons make sense in WordPress specifically for several reasons: They live in the global scope without using the already abused/overused [cci]global[/cci] keyword As a distributed application maintained by several hundred developers, they prevent problems that likely arise from others misusing your code But
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Please also review my follow-up post, Making Singletons Safe in PHP. There has been a lot of discussion this week regarding the Singleton pattern and whether or not it has a place in modern software development. Mike Schinkel wrote a tutorial about a Singleton factory. I wrote one about using Singletons as a WordPress plugin
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The power of WordPress lies in its pluggable infrastructure. Unlike other content management applications which require you to edit the core code of the system to make changes, WordPress supports plugins. These smaller applications tie in to a rich API provided by WordPress that allows you to change just about everything about the application and customize
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Last time, I talked about what it would be like if WordPress supported sessions. Well, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and actually took the time to build it. I’m proud to announce the very first release of an implementation of [cci]WP_Session[/cci].
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My first experience with WordPress was when a client asked me to hack apart the registration system to allow for simple custom referral links. They wanted users to be placed at different user levels depending on the URL they used to sign up for an account. My initial attempt was … atrocious When a user hit
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When I was in high school, my favorite football team wasn’t very good. I was excited when we’d win at least half the games in a season. I also distinctly remember once when the cable company switched to a “more competitive game” during the 2nd quarter because we were losing so badly. When the Ducks
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Some time ago, I made a mistake. Rather than taking the time to truly understand how events worked in jQuery, I built my own JavaScript library to handle event delegation. It worked, but why reinvent the wheel? It turns out jQuery is perfectly capable of serving as a global event bus for all of your
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It was brought to my attention last week that there aren’t very many good tutorials on the web regarding the use of XML-RPC in WordPress. Sure, there are plenty that talk about how easy it is to use and how great of a tool it can be, but few examples explaining just how it can be
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A few months back, I taught you how to make your widgets theme-ready by extracting the actual markup into an overridable template. Now, we’re going to do the same for shortcodes. And for those of you wanting to see this in practice, stay tuned for the release of version 2.5 of WP Publication Archive in
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As most of you know, I started a new job a few weeks ago with 10up. It’s an amazing job so far, and I’m thrilled to work with several developers I admire and am lucky enough to call friends. But deciding to take this new job was a difficult decision for me – because I…