Otto, Brian Krogsgard, Ben Lobaugh, Erick Hitter, Jake Goldman, Kailey Lampert, Shane Pearlman, John Hawkins, Patrick Garman, Ryan Frankel, Andrew Norcross. Google Hangouts seemed to work pretty well! I don’t have a strong opinion about any of the points they discussed, but I would love to see an option to flag a particular plugin with a security issue, and obviously, write what the issue...
How to Get a List of Contributors from a Github Project
We launched underscores.me a few hours ago and the overall feedback is great. People seem to love how we automatically pull in contributors using the GitHub API, so I decided to share the code snippet that does that (using WordPress): function underscoresme_get_contributors() { $transient_key = 'underscoresme_contributors'; $contributors = get_transient( $transient_key ); if ( false !==...
Introducing Underscores.me
Underscores.me — The Best Way To Get Started With The _s Theme on ThemeShaper. It’s a project Hugo Baeta and I have been working of in the past few days. Make sure you check it out and come back with some feedback. If you’d like your face to appear in the list of contributors, make sure you contribute at least one patch (or pull request) to the underscores project on Github. Have fun!
Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2012
Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word at WordCamp San Francisco 2012.
WordCamp San Francisco 2012
I’ll be at WordCamp San Francisco 2012 this Saturday.
Updating Plugins Feels Good
I have updated two plugins I wrote a long time ago, which haven’t been updated in years, and were not fully compatible with the recent versions of WordPress. It felt very good, especially since I managed to rewrite both plugins in only a few hours, and looking at my old code made me realize how much I have learned.
I feel like I should do this more often.
WordPress 3.5 Media Wireframes
Check out the Media Wireframes for WordPress 3.5 published in the make/ui blog, ready for some feedback. I’m really loving what the guys are doing, and when it gets implemented, it’ll make me want to use the visual editor again :)
Go Beyond Draft-Publish-Pending in WordPress
If Draft, Pending, and Publish don’t suit your needs, you can always add more with register_post_status, which will take care of pretty much everything, except the admin UI where you actually have to pick a post status. Ticket #12706 takes care of that, so feel free to try out the existing patches, and report back to Trac.
Write your own HTTP API wrapper
Write your own HTTP API wrapper that throws exceptions — come on, you’re a programmer, do what programmers do: make a personal, convoluted abstraction layer. :-) Andrew Nacin on WP_Error Which is a nice read on wp-hackers by the way, about how WP_Error is used and why it shouldn’t be replaced by PHP5 exceptions, which I never liked. If you’re really thinking of writing an HTTP...
Convert NextGen Galleries to WordPress Galleries
I was using NextGen Gallery for quite some time here on my blog, and it was all going well until WordPress introduced its own gallery shortcode, custom post types and more, which NextGen never adapted to. After migrating the blog a couple of times I was tired of all the conflicts, so I stopped using galleries, disable the plugin and lived happily even after, until… Until Jetpack Carousel...