Earlier today I pushed an update to my skeleton plugin builder - DX Plugin Base. The plugin is meant to be used as a base for creating new plugins, you can either copy-paste it and just delete and replace what needs to be changed (that's what the author of the Metwit Weather Widget did) or just use specific functions to create post types, me...
The annual State of the Word session by Matt covers the latest updates on the platform - usage, coming updates and new features from the past year and other valuable stats so that WordPress experts could see their place on the map and see if there are any business decisions to be taken for the next few months (or a year).
The platform/appl...
I'm occasionally working on building plugin bridges or integrating some third party APIs on WordPress. Just as often I struggle with unmaintainable code.
Seems like too many people have read the "How To Write Unmaintainable Code" article so I'd better elaborate on this one.
Today I've been working on a project using a plugin for various Wo...
Last week I was helping with a task for deleting terms from the WordPress database based on an array of IDs from a select statement.
Since I have a thing for database systems (spent a few years playing in various mid-size and large projects with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases before migrating to MySQL) I thought it was a 20sec job to build...
We've been working here on a URL shortener as a part of another project. To avoid the server redirect rules and so, we verify against the database whether a slug exists (is already entered in the DB) and if so, we get the URL and redirect to the page.
As a fan of the request filter, I'd go with this approach:
[php]
function dx_redirector_r...
Recently one of the trendy discussions online has been the involvement of business tracks in WordCamp programs. I'm one of the supporters of that for various reasons.
The Key Difference
First off, the "business" is one of the key differences between WordPress and various platforms or systems available for the public at the moment. Over the...
This week's May 27th was marked as a significant holiday all around the world. Over 700 parties have been organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of WordPress.
Our community in Bulgaria has been influenced by the WordPress aura for the past few years and, according to our volunteers there were about 110 fans joining the party. At some p...
We had a great discussion with Marko Heijnen yesterday recorded in our WordPress Developers community on Google+. It was the fourth video we record with active WordPress community members so I thought that it's time to set a playlist with our WordPress videos and also shed some light on the overall idea.
History
The WordPress Developers comm...
Last week we had the first large WordPress 'meetup' online called WordSesh. It was an incredible event that was yet another proof for how awesome the WordPress community is.
I had the chance to speak at WordSesh and I presented the WordPress.org Themes Directory and the process of reviewing themes. The video is embedded below + slides here....
I can barely find some time to sleep, but hopefully April would be enlightening for the local group of WordPress peeps. In the next month there are several things planned:
1 (if not two) meetups of the Bulgarian group
Few WordPress sessions as a part of the CMS course in Telerik Academy
WordSesh (available for locals here too)
Zero Marke...
