Ever find yourself wanting to query the “standard” post format within WordPress and not having much luck? It turns out there’s a Trac Ticket for this very subject. But for now, Alex King came up with a way for it to work with WP_Query calls. Go have a look at his code.
Nathan Ingram shared a chart at his WordCamp Birmingham workshop session, literally minutes ago, of many of the available WordPress backup solutions, their features, and their prices. It’s really quite handy. Ryan and I have been here all weekend (well, I actually live here) and it’s been a great time. This is one example of the great things people put together when they go to WordCamps.
WooThemes developer and sometimes-WPCandy-contributor Matty Cohen wrote a post explaining how to get started with WordPress’ transient API. The codex describes transients as “very similar to the Options API but with the added feature of an expiration time”, and developers can use them in a number of different ways.
WordPress consultant Konstantin Kovshenin wrote about how certain WordPress themes and plugins can “lock you” into using them and now allow for portability between other options. When building a theme or plugin, I think it’s generally a good rule of thumb to respect a user’s settings and content the same way that WordPress itself does.
In a good followup to the post I linked up here last week, Milan Petrovic has outlined some ways that plugin developers can better optimize their work. In particular I like how he stresses that plugins should check to see where the user is, and avoid loading up resources if it’s not somewhere the plugin is in use.
WordPress consultant Bill Erickson has a great collection of code snippets on his site. There are a good deal of Genesis-specific snippets, but also plenty that are useful no matter what theme framework you happen to use.
Do you put your code snippets online in any form?
Automattic Theme Wrangler Ian Stewart linked up his choice WordPress and web design links. I’m happy to see WPCandy on there, of course, but even more so I enjoy the charm of a simple (and short) list of recommended websites. What new sites have you picked up and added to your feeds lately?
I don’t think I’m in a very good position to judge WordPress’ performance in large-scale enterprise situations. My development and client experience isn’t as broad as most, and I spend most of my time on a single (but active) installation of WordPress. So I always find criticisms of WordPress like the one Kevinjohn Gallagher http://kevinjohngallagher.com/2012/01/wordpress-has-left-the-building/“>lays out in his post to be particularly interesting reads.
He has comments turned off on his blog, so refer to the discussion on Hacker News and WPTavern, or chat about it below.
This one happened back in December, but it’s still worth checking out. Milan Petrovic at Dev4Press did a bit of a study to discover the impact of various popular WordPress plugins. He covered 35 plugins in the post, and a few of them didn’t test very well at all.
You may have thought WordPress couldn’t do such things, but they have all been possible since WordPress 2.9 was released. But do you take advantage of the image manipulation within WordPress? WPBeginner has covered all the ways you can within WordPress.
