2014
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WordPress Core Proposal: Comment Remastering
Feb 26
Post-publication comments are also a form of collaboration, and they are in drastic need of some refactoring and re-imagining.
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WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor
Feb 12
What would you want to see in an offline editor for WordPress? How would you approach building it? Would it be a core feature, plugin material, or something else entirely?
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A Hack a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay
Feb 11
I do a lot of fancy work with WordPress that, at times, has me pulling my hair out in frustration with the lack of (or uselessness of) certain hooks in WordPress core. At the same time, I never hack core.
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Inbox: How do I remove jQuery
Feb 6
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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WordPress Core Proposal: Portable Revisions
Jan 29
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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Customer-Centric Development: Lesson 1
Jan 23
Lesson 1 in customer-centric development is all about storytelling. If you can tell your story, your product’s story, and your customer’s story, then you’re on solid ground. If you can’t articulate any or all of these stories, though, you might be in trouble.
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WordPress Core Proposal: Shortcode Tracking
Jan 22
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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Dogfooding: Fighting the Post-Conference High
Jan 20
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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Post-Conference High
Jan 19
Most conference attendees experience some kind of high when they walk out the doors. They’ve just had their brains filled with hours or new knowledge and new ideas. On Monday, though, this high begins to fade. What can you do to prevent this from happening?
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Why Speak at WordCamp?
Jan 17
Today kicks off WordCamp Phoenix. Tomorrow (and Sunday) I’ll be speaking there. This is the third year I’ve presented at WordCamp Phoenix. Why do I keep coming back?
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jQuery Portland – Unit Testing
Jan 16
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!
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WordPress Core Proposal: Aribitrary File Upload
Jan 15
I’m proposing a new feature for WordPress that would enable editors to drag-and-drop new media anywhere within the admin interface and have those uploads added to the media gallery. It would streamline several of my workflows. Would it help yours?