This is the fourth in a series of posts documenting the creation of Theme Friendly. On day three, I built the review archives page. I don’t think this page will be used directly, but on day four I incorporated it into the search results page, so it was still worth building. Day 3 Screenshot After […]
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This is the third in a series of posts documenting the creation of Theme Friendly. On day two, I set about building the individual theme review page. The goal was to provide a quick overview of the quality of a theme as well as it’s features. This was to be done by displaying the contents
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This is the second in a series of posts documenting the creation of Theme Friendly. Day 1 Screenshot Most of day one was spent planning and implementing the data structure for the new site. As you can see, I didn’t do too much work on the design:
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This is the first in a series of posts documenting the creation of Theme Friendly. A short history I’ve been thinking about building a commercial WordPress theme directory for a number of years now. I even tried (and failed) to get one off the ground a few years ago. During that time, a number of
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As of this writing, I have only two plugins in the WordPress.org repository. I periodically update these plugins, but not often enough to memorize all the steps required to get things right on the first try. So for my own future reference (and maybe yours as well) here are all the steps laid out in
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Last week, Pippin Williamson published a post titled “Why Loading Your Own jQuery is Irresponsible.” This very issues was brought up tonight at the Seattle WordPress meetup, which led to a lively discussion and referenced Pippin’s post. Please, for the love of the WordPress community, just use the version of jQuery bundled in WordPress core…
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Let’s say you want to use add_action() to attach a function to an existing action, but you want to pass your function a few arguments. This seems to be a common problem with no good solution. Yes, you could use global variables, but that’s rather messy, especially if you want to attach the same function
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Data portability within WordPress is a big deal. However, best practices regarding how to properly make data portable are hazy at best. Where should custom post types be defined? What should happen to the data when a user switches themes? In this post I will attempt to summarize the various arguments, point out one overlooked
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