I wrote the Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress back in May of 2005. It had a good run, but that run is over. We are no longer developing or supporting Popularity Contest, and I recommend letting it rest peacefully. Why? It does too much, and too little at the same time. It does too much.…
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Popularity Contest is Dead (and on GitHub)
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011WordPress Plugins and Symlinks
Thursday, December 15th, 2011If you’re doing serious development for WordPress you will quickly find yourself in a situation where you need to test a plugin in multiple installations. Using symlinks is a great way to make sure that you don’t end up editing in multiple locations, perhaps forgetting to commit a change, etc. However, there are some headaches…
WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 3
Sunday, December 11th, 2011The third (and hopefully final!) release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available. Since RC2, we’ve done a handful of last-minute tweaks and bugfixes that we felt were necessary. Our goal is to release version 3.3 early next week, so plugin and theme authors, this is your last pre-release chance to test your plugins and themes to find any [...]
WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011The second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available! As the first release candidate was well-received, we think we’re really close to a final release. Primarily, we’ve ensured that new toolbar (the admin bar in 3.2) has a consistent appearance across all browsers, and the API for developers is now final. You can check [...]
Setting Custom Taxonomies as part of wp_insert_post()
Sunday, November 27th, 2011If you’re trying to figure out why your custom taxonomies aren’t being set when you pass them to wp_insert_post() in your custom code, you might be running into the same issue I did. Luckily, it’s easy to work around once you understa…
Blair Williams: How to Create a Premium WordPress Plugin
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Blair Williams shares his experiences with developing and publishing premium WordPress plugins, including how to distribute them, strategies for charging and how to charge for them, and how to market your plugin to reach new users.
Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.
Colin Loretz: WordPress as a CMS
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Colin Loretz discusses specific methods for using WordPress as a content management system, including when WordPress is best for your site and how you can optimize your WordPress use for a complete site.
Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.
Team WordPress 3.0 Code Review
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Today we did our first team WordPress code review. Even though we build on WordPress MU as much or more than we have with single user WordPress, we all wanted to get a better sense of how that functionality had been merged into 3.0.
It went pretty well I think. We met at the office, got [...]
WordPress 2.9 and PHP Libraries
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010I recently put new releases of my Twitter Tools plugin – basically patches so that it would work in WordPress 2.9 on versions of PHP prior to 5.2. This is an interesting situation, where I hadn’t really done anything wrong in the plugin and the WP core team hadn’t really done anything wrong in the [...]
