WordPress 3.0 will introduce a simple programatic way for developers to create custom post types. I’ve seen people talking at length about this feature, but most discussion focuses on how you can have a custom display for certain content, support custom URL structures or manage content differently. These things aren’t new – they are all…
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At Crowd Favorite we get a lot of inquiries from people who are interested in building something with or on WordPress. These potential projects vary greatly in scope and concept – some are just a couple of days, some are 6 months or more. To make things more complicated, these potential clients often view WordPress…
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We’ve released a new WordPress plugin to help reduce the server load that can occasionally result from a large number of 404 requests on a WordPress-powered site. I wrote about this issue in some detail previously. This plugin gives you the ability to set a collection of file extensions that you do not want WordPress…
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It’s true in any profession: everyone will look at your own (insert specialty here) and assume it’s representative of the best of your work. More often, the opposite is true – especially if you’re good at what you do. The cobbler’s children go barefoot. This was definitely the case for us. The previous iteration of…
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I’m heading to WordCamp SF again this year and quite looking forward to it. Several folks from Crowd Favorite are making the trip this year. I’m looking forward to seeing a number of friends in the community this weekend. Of particular note, I’m hoping to talk to more plugin developers and find our new ways…
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I’ve updated my Twitter Tools plugin to version 2.3. This version has several security enhancements (thanks Mark Jaquith) as well as a change that may help some folks that have been seeing doubled digest posts. I recommend upgrading ASAP. The Twitter Tools plugin creates a full integration between your WordPress site and your Twitter account.…
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One of the things I love about WordPress HelpCenter is the way we are able to add offerings based on customer demand. Our latest addition is a formalization of a collection of support and maintenance packages so that we can provide pro-active support for our customers. With these packages, we are not only responding to…
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Today we did our first team WordPress code review. Even though we build on WordPress MU as much or more than we have with single user WordPress, we all wanted to get a better sense of how that functionality had been merged into 3.0. It went pretty well I think. We met at the office,…
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I released a new version of our WordPress HelpCenter plugin last week in order to update information in it to reflect our expanded hours. I realized that this might cause some concern for any of our affiliates. One of the things we offer to our affiliates is a customized version of the HelpCenter plugin that…
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We’ve expanded our hours at WordPress HelpCenter so we are now covering the full business day across the continental US: 9am-8pm US/Eastern (or 9am on the east coast to 5pm on the west coast). I’m very pleased that this will allow us to provide our on-demand WordPress support and development services in an even more…
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I’m very pleased that we have reached the point with WordPress HelpCenter where we need to add another developer to our team. We’re looking for someone with a broad range of WordPress, PHP, XHTML and CSS experience, basic server configuration experience, and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills. Ideally we’d like to add someone…
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I’ve released a new version of Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a full 2-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release addresses two bugs: The use of the native json_decode() function, required by the changes in WordPress 2.9 (version 2.1) created a problem for users with servers running 32-bit PHP.…
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I recently put new releases of my Twitter Tools plugin – basically patches so that it would work in WordPress 2.9 on versions of PHP prior to 5.2. This is an interesting situation, where I hadn’t really done anything wrong in the plugin and the WP core team hadn’t really done anything wrong in the…
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Child theme support has landed in SVN for Carrington. The way it is implemented allows child themes to add templates to the parent theme (adding more supported conditions for post types, comments, categories, etc.), not just replace existing templates. If you are building themes on Carrington, check this out and provide feedback before it’s tagged and released.
This post is part of the project: Carrington Core. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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Version 2.1 of my Twitter Tools plugin is now available. Twitter Tools creates a two-way integration between your Twitter account and your WordPress blog. You can send your blog posts to Twitter and bring your tweets back to your blog for display, archiving, or creating posts from them. This version has a bunch of changes…