I was thinking about this for quite some time now — an actual retweet button for WordPress, and I wonder why Twitter hasn’t provided one yet, it’s so obvious! Yes, the tweet button is doing a great job these days, but let’s admit, that we content publishers enjoy retweets more than regular tweets to our articles, because: They show your name and your Twitter avatar along...
Using Jetpack for E-mail Subscriptions in WordPress
You can find a bunch of “subscribe to posts” plugins in the WordPress.org directory but from my personal experience, it’s very difficult to find something as good and reliable as Jetpack. The major difference is behind the scenes — when most post subscription plugins will use the wp_mail function to distribute your new post (using sendmail from your server or an SMTP...
Meet the WordPress MacBook Air
It probably voids warranty, but it’s so damn awesome! Here’s how in glows in the dark, and I think it looks terrific without any stickers :) Source: Matt on Not-WordPress.
Get an Expired Transient in WordPress: Good Idea or Crazy Talk?
I wonder if there’s an easy way to get an expired transient in WordPress? Now, for this to make sense I guess I should provide a little more context, so here it goes :) The Transients API is an extremely easy way to cache parts of your WordPress code, that may be CPU/memory intensive, or rely on a third-party server and so on. A great example is grabbing a tweet from Twitter and caching it...
A Note About get_template_part and Child Themes
Tip: if you’re wondering why your WordPress template file (for example index.php) is not being executed, perhaps a different file (archive.php) is overriding it. Now this may sound obvious, but not when you start using get_template_part to organize your theme files, and not when you’re making a child theme. Let’s take a quick look at the following snippet: get_template_part(...
Open-sourcing the Code Comments Trac plugin
Open-sourcing the Code Comments Trac plugin by Nikolay Bachiyski, from the WordPress.com VIP team. I haven’t had a chance to use the plugin myself, but I really love Trac (I don’t have much choice now either) and I really love code commenting on Github. This little plugin brings one to the other. Awesome, and well done!
I've Joined Automattic
This is big news, and words can’t explain my feelings. Today’s my first day at Automattic, the company behing WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, Polldaddy, VaultPress, and a whole lot more. As you know, Automattic also contributes to a number of Open Source projects, including BuddyPress, bbPress, Browse Happy, WordCamp.org and of course WordPress itself. So… Starting today...
Hey WordPress, How About a WP_Plugin Class?
Okay January is my month of ideas :) Let’s talk about plugins for a moment, shall we? Actions and filters are no secret to WordPress developers, right? Say, how many times do you type something like this in your plugins or theme files: class Some_Plugin { function __construct() { add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'admin_init' ) ); } function admin_init() { ...
WordPress Multisite with Wildcard Subdomains
If you’re working with WordPress Multisite in your local environment, you might have noticed that dealing with a subdomain install is a pain, because your hosts file doesn’t support wildcard entries for hosts, i.e. you cannot do something like this: 127.0.0.1 *.multisite.lo # will not work! There are quite a few solutions though, first and easiest of which is to run multisite with a...
Dear WordPress, I Want to "Drop Files Here" in the Visual Editor!
Wouldn’t in be great if we could drag and drop to upload files directly into the visual editor? WordPress 3.3 very well handles drag and drop uploads into the Add Media modal box, in a special area that says “drop files here”: And thank you so much for that, WordPress, but I’m tired of constantly having to open the media manager to insert an image into my post or page...