2014
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WordPress Core Proposal: SUDO
Jan 8
Logging in to your WordPress site as an administrator when your plan is just to write is a bad idea. The admin user should be for administration and you should use an editor-level user for writing. But this dual-login workflow can be needlessly complicated on many sites. Instead, I propose we introduce a SUDO mode…
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Photon and HTTPS – Making It Work
Jan 5
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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Securing XML-RPC for WordPress
Jan 1
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…
2013
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Query, Template, Actions as MVC in WordPress
Dec 12
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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Crowdfunding a New Year’s Goal
Dec 7
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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WordPress: Falling Behind or Still Leading?
Nov 7
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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WordPress is One Of the Best Decisions You Can Make
Oct 25
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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WordPress, meet seoslides
Sept 26
Back in 2011, I was talking at WordCamp Portland with a few people about how we could use WordPress to replace our presentations. Fast forward to 2013, and I get to make that dream a reality. We just launched seoslides, and it’s already making a huge impact on my content!
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Modular WordPress
Jul 31
The future of WordPress lies in plugin development – so let’s make the core API more pluggable.
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WordPress, Forking, and the Road to 4.0
Jul 27
WordPress 3.6 is around the corner. Versions 3.7 and 3.8 are expected before 2013. Here’s my vision for 3.9 and 4.0.
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Automated WordPress Development
Jun 8
Developers want readable, modular code; visitors want small, fast downloads. Grunt automates the busywork between the two (linting, concatenating, minifying), and 10up’s project templates make starting a WordPress theme or plugin easier.
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Plugin Review – Spam Free WordPress
May 23
A friend recommended I look at the Spam Free WordPress plugin. I took a look, and I can’t make the same recommendation.