Facebook has just announced their official WordPress plugin on the Developers blog. You can get the plugin for free from the WordPress.org plugins directory, and don’t forget to rate it too!
WordPress 3.4 Field Guide for Developers
A new API for custom headers and backgrounds, flexible headers, live previews (the Theme Customizer), changes around XML-RPC and i18n and l10n. All of this and more in the WordPress 3.4 Field Guide for Developers.
Querying Posts Without query_posts
A great tutorial on Querying Posts Without query_posts, by my friend and co-worker John James Jacoby. If you’re still using query_posts in your WordPress themes, this post will help you get rid of that bad habit ;)
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 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!
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!
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!