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.
Automattic Shares Revenue Numbers and Hires Execs
Automattic Grows Up: The Company Behind WordPress.com Shares Revenue Numbers and Hires Execs — a great article by Liz Gannes of AllThingsD. Liz covers some of the latest numbers, and some of the new hires. By the way, AllThingsD is running on WordPress.com too!
Jetpack 1.3 Released, now with Grunion Contact Forms
Jetpack 1.3 has been released, and it now ships with the Grunion Contact Forms plugin, the very same forms plugin that’s running (behind the scenes) on WordPress.com. The update fixes a couple of small bugs as well. You should be able to download it from your Dashboard very soon.
I started a blog about Theme Options
I started a blog about Theme Options, where I post screenshots and thoughts about options panels in free and premium WordPress themes. My ultimate goal is to get a collection of good and bad practices when dealing with theme options. Thanks for subscribing and feel free to submit your screenshots and thoughts!
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WordPress Stats Infographic by Yoast
WordPress Stats Infographic by Joost de Valk shows off WordPress numbers and compares them to Drupal, Joomla and others. Includes some stats from WordPress.com too.