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— WordPress (@WordPress) May 27, 2012
Mark Jaquith Launches WordPress Skeleton
Mark Jaquith launches WordPress Skeleton — a starter kit repository, for easier and faster WordPress applications deployment.
Meet the Brand New CodePoet!
Meet the brand new Code Poet, which is now a resource for making (and breaking) things with WordPress. Congrats to Pete, Pick, Evan, Rebecca, Krista, and Dave on the launch and hope to see more great content on the site very soon. Oh, and can you make it into the 780-800 club in the Quiz?
The Third WordPress Meetup in Moscow
The Moscow WordPress Meetup Group is growing and we recently held our third meetup, which was quite a success! We had a total of 12 attendees (including a 5 year old kid) and 4 presentations, around 30 minutes each: What’s new in WordPress 3.4 Building a Wiki with WordPress The GNU GPL Explained An Into to HyperDB We met on a Saturday morning and the weather was perfect, everybody seemed to...
The third Moscow WordPress Meetup will be held this weekend
The third WordPress Meetup in Moscow will be held on Saturday, May 19th. Topics will include WordPress 3.4, HyperDB, an intro to GPL, and others, obviously in Russian. Tune in, and invite your friends!
Quick tip: Hide the Home Item on Your Front Page in WordPress
The title says it all — this one-liner CSS will hide the home item from your navigation menu, when you’re on the home page: body.home .current-menu-item { display: none; } If you’re not yet using wp_nav_menu to build your navigation menus, then, uhm, wake up! Also, the snippet relies on the body_class usage in your theme, and if your theme doesn’t use one, uhm, wake up! :)...
Rewrite Rules Inspector
Clients often ask for fuzzy, non-standard, maybe weird and not always logical permalink structure for their sites. If you’re now working with such a client, consider yourself lucky, because the brand new Rewrite Rules Inspector plugin is here! Props to the WordPress.com VIP team :)
How to leverage the Theme Customizer in your own themes
How to leverage the Theme Customizer in your own themes by Otto Wood, who is a WordPress core developer. Get your theme ready for 3.4!
Never Set Defaults in the Database
Speaking of defaults, NEVER SET DEFAULTS IN THE DATABASE. Not ever. The theme options you store in the DB should always, always, *always* be something the user has selected. If the user selects the default, then that’s fine to set in the DB. but you don’t set it in the DB just because it’s not set at all. get_theme_mod has a second option for the default value. So does get_option for that matter...
The best way to stay up to date with what’s happening with WordPress 3.4
The best way to stay up to date with what’s happening with WordPress 3.4 (and any other future release) is to follow the Core Trac RSS feed. Changesets are important, following new and closed tickets is sometimes useful too, that’s around 200 posts per week.