Tag: WordPress

  • Using stripslashes() with Theme Options

    Using stripslashes() with Theme Options

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    **Update:** This is not the right way to do this. Use WordPress functions to sanitize data. April 27, 2012 While I might be showing a bit about my PHP naivety but while working with theme options recently I found that some of my content had a just before a single quote. Now I knew it…

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  • WordPress Menu UI

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    Today we’ve just got a quick comment on how I think the WordPress menu UI could be improved. [podcast format=”video”]http://blip.tv/file/get/Curtismchale-CommentOnTheWordPressMenuUI686.mov[/podcast]

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  • Conditional Tags for Custom Taxonomies in WordPress

    Conditional Tags for Custom Taxonomies in WordPress

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    WordPress 3.0 gave us custom taxonomies and since we’re using them regularly we’re also getting into conditional tags with our custom taxonomies. Conditional tags for taxonomies differ from conditional tags for regular categories or tags. Below is an example of using a conditional tag for the standard ‘misc’ category found in WordPress. [php] if( is_category(…

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  • Building Quality WordPress Themes – Theme Unit Test

    Building Quality WordPress Themes – Theme Unit Test

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    A while ago I wrote about error logging in WordPress. Today we’re going to look further at testing your theme by using the WordPress Theme Unit Test. The Theme Unit Test is really just a sample data file to download with a bunch of things for you to check on your theme. I just have…

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  • WordPress 3.1 and Post Formats

    WordPress 3.1 and Post Formats

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    WordPress 3.1 is just around the corner so let’s take a quick look at one of the new features that we’ll get to take advantage of with the new version. What are Post Formats Basically post formats are little bits of meta information meant to change the display of the posts. So a link post…

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  • WordPress StackExchange Question of the Week – November 15 – 21

    WordPress StackExchange Question of the Week – November 15 – 21

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    This weeks question is more a round up of WordPress resources. If you’re interested in WordPress development then hit up this list and start reading the blogs of some of the brightest minds in WordPress. Truth to tell there are probably more resources here than most people could go through on a regular basis.

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  • Building High Quality WordPress Themes

    Building High Quality WordPress Themes

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    Lately I’ve been working through WordPress documentation on the recommended best practices for building WordPress themes. I figure that going through all the recommendations of WordPress not only teaches me how to be a better WordPress developer but also lets me server my clients better (and doing the best work for my clients is what…

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  • Tips on Picking a WordPress Plugin

    Tips on Picking a WordPress Plugin

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    On many of my long term projects my clients are heavily involved in the development cycles. We mark everything that’s not in the current cycle as a ‘future feature’ and collect information on it as we work out the items that are currently marked as features. Often, as we look at a particular piece of…

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  • WordPress Stackexchange Question of the Week – November 8 -14

    WordPress Stackexchange Question of the Week – November 8 -14

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    Ever been interested in synchronizing WordPress user accounts across multiple domains? Well you weren’t the only one. There are a few answers to this one already but one seems to be far more complete. I personally can’t speak to it’s correctness but I’m watching the comments on it since there may come a time when…

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  • Contribute to Documentation Even if It’s Not Sexy

    Contribute to Documentation Even if It’s Not Sexy

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    We should all contribute to open source projects. If you’re building websites you’re using something open source and it just seems right that we should give something back. The real sexy thing to so when contributing to open source is committing code. For every open source project that’s out there I’m sure you can find…

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