WordPress 3.9 has been given a release date of April 15th (tax day in the US). And there’s a lot to do before the release which was the focus of this weeks WordPress core dev meeting on Freenode. If you’re a WordPress developer and haven’t queued into one of these meetings then I would highly recommend …
I previously wrote a post showing how to target specific Internet Explorer (IE) versions using CSS hacks. So when I came across an CSS rendering issue for a client site which only seemed to happen in IE 10/11 (really!) I thought I’d skip back and see if those hacks would work. It was a little …
If you read my previous article How Grunt Saved My Life and are interesting in using Grunt on your next project, here’s a quick post on installing and using Grunt on a Windows 7 based machine. Install Node JS As Grunt runs on the Node JS framework, you need to install that package first. Head …
Just before Christmas a notice was sent out to all plugin authors on WordPress.org. As of now, when a plugin author tries to commit the plugin files to the WordPress plugin repository using SVN the PHP code will be rejected if any syntax errors are found. The plugin author will receive an email telling them …
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And it was that time again. Time to deploy another project onto the production server. I was already starting to get a cold sweat in anticipation. My fingers were itching to get stuck into that interesting new API I had found late last night during a rather productive Googling sesh, the brain already conjuring up …
Git is fast becoming the defacto code versioning system used by professional developers. Developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Git is an open source, distributed version control system. Being distributed gives it many advantages over it’s older rival SVN, being able to commit and create branches locally without access to a central server, to name …
We love working with the Genesis Framework from StudioPress. Version 2 was a big update which brought in HTML 5 support for child themes along with the new HTML 5 elements like “section” and “aside” and more importantly new filter and hook names. If you’re building a new theme using Genesis 2.x then it’s probably …
As a developer there are some tricks you can put in place to reduce the load on your MySQL database. They are called WordPress transients. What’s the problem? WordPress has some great APIs that allow you to retrieve information that is stored in your database (DB). Indeed every page that you view on the front-end …
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It seems like everyone is going with with flat design ethos and that includes the new WordPress 3.8 update. WordPress 3.7 arrived at the end of October and you would be forgiven for not even noticing it. Visually there was no change from its predecessor. But that’s all about to change and you’re going to …
If you are a WordPress developer then you already know the agony that is WP-Cron. If you’re not a developer and are wondering why your posts miss their schedule and your backups never run… read on. WordPress has an internal scheduler that runs tasks (like scheduling posts) periodically called WP-Cron. And it really, really, really …