I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
How to best provide support for the software you create is an interesting point of deliberation. I’ve gone through various stages and…
I wrote the Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress back in May of 2005. It had a good run, but that run is over. We are no longer developing or supporting Popularity Contest, and I recommend letting it rest peacefully. Why? It does too much, and too little at the same time. It does too much.…
If you’re doing serious development for WordPress you will quickly find yourself in a situation where you need to test a plugin in multiple installations. Using symlinks is a great way to make sure that you don’t end up editing in multiple locations, perhaps forgetting to commit a change, etc. However, there are some headaches…
I have been moving Crowd Favorite‘s Open Source projects to GitHub (as well as my personal projects). GitHub has great tools for this. We created an organization, added the team members to that organization, and created repositories for our projects. As a few of our projects have enjoyed exactly the sort of developer community engagement…
If you’re trying to figure out why your custom taxonomies aren’t being set when you pass them to wp_insert_post() in your custom code, you might be running into the same issue I did. Luckily, it’s easy to work around once you understand why it is happening.
While our post formats admin UI is getting a nice warm reception (100+ tweets, pings and comments, wow!), there is a concern that has popped up a few times – one that I included a nod towards in my original post. What happens when publishers put important data in the post format custom fields, then…
The Post Formats feature that landed in WordPress 3.1 is a great framework feature. I’m leveraging it extensively on this site to drive my link, status, photo and gallery posts. While it is a great framework feature, it only really exists as something developers leverage to extend WordPress. There is no UI that ships with…
The inline documentation for wp_publish_post() says that it will: Publish a post by transitioning the post status. and that’s exactly what it does. Moreover, that’s all it does. If you are creating a draft post via wp_insert_post() (or wp_update_post(), which calls wp_insert_post()), certain defaults will be set for you when the post status is set…
Steve laments the lack of easy “Incognito” windows in Firefox. I tried Safari as my primary browser for a few weeks when I upgraded to Lion and I really missed this as well. Once it becomes part of your workflow, it’s really hard to go back. I actually want it to go a step further.…
If you’re using Moderinzr to detect browser support for touch events, be aware that non-touch BlackBerry devices claim to support touch events. As you might expect, the touch events are pretty much impossible to trigger on a non-touch device. I worked around this by making the check for touch vs. non-touch browsers also test for…
For years I’ve used custom fields (post meta) in WordPress as a primary storage area for misc. data about specific posts (including pages, custom post types, etc.). Recently, I’ve realized that I should be using custom taxonomies instead of custom fields in a variety of situations. Custom fields are still the right choice for misc.…
I talked to a number of developers about at this year’s WordCamp SF about where best to publish WordPress code as a developer. We definitely want to use the SVN repositories on WordPress.org so that released plugins can be easily available to the community, but there is very little developer community there. We’ve also used…
My team and I have been working on a plugin to enable a better UI for post formats in the WordPress admin (more on this later, but feel free to grab the code and play with it). One of the things we’ve done is standardize on some custom field names for various bits of data…
If you are customizing the GUID value of a post in WordPress, make sure you maintain the format of the GUID as a valid URL format. There are security checks on the value that enforce the URL format. If you pass in a UUID as the GUID value when creating a post, your value will…
Over the last few years I’ve ended up with 4 different machines that I use on a regular basis. I have workstations at the office and at home, a large laptop as a portable workhorse, and a small laptop for travel. Each of these has a development environment on it so I can get work…
If you hook in to get_the_terms and try to make a get_post_format() call within your callback without first removing your filter, you’re going to get an infinite loop (perhaps a seg fault). Good times!