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Jetpack’s Photon service doesn’t like it when image assets are served over SSL. I took some time to dig in to the issue and coded a quick workaround to enable Photon on a site locked down to serve all assets over SSL.
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If you use WordPress, you’ve probably used one of the mobile apps for it. If you’ve used one of these mobile apps, then you’ve used XML-RPC. If you’ve used XML-RPC, then you’ve sent your username and password – in plain text – across the Internet. This is hugely unsafe, and I want to work to…
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I love WordPress. I also love MVC design fundamentals. Unfortunately, these two loves of mine are at odds with one another, and that makes me sad. Here’s my simple idea to make WordPress’ built-in templating engine play nice with MVC sensibilities – everyone can win!
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After watching a few sessions of WordSesh – particularly the podcasting roundtable – I’ve decided to take another stab at podcasting. This time around I want to cover a broad range of topics, and throw in some video. I’m asking for the community’s help getting this show off the ground, and I won’t be able…
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When Tumblr first appeared, everyone wanted WordPress to begin emulating its features. Then came Medium and the same cry. Then Ghost launched and again the retort sounded that “WordPress is falling behind!” But is WordPress really lagging behind the pack? I would argue otherwise.
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Some would say the decision to use WordPress in an enterprise or mission-critical environment is a mistake. I disagree. Strongly. Using WordPress is the best decision I’ve ever made.
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Last weekend, Matt Mullenweg spoke at length about what the future holds for WordPress development. I took some time to share a brief proposal for one change that could be made farther down the road. Today I’d like to share another – more in line with Matt’s proposal that future WordPress development be focused around…
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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…
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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…