WordPress Dropping PHP 4 and MySQL 4
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Aug 7 2010 | View Comments
In News, WordPress News
WordPress has announced as of next year it is officially dropping support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 in their next releases, giving developers, Theme and Plugin authors plenty of time to prepare. Many other programs reliant upon these are doing the same.
Around the WordPress Community: PhotoShop, Default Theme, BackPress, Google Maps, AJAX, WordPress.com Apps
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 21 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, Features
The WordPress 3.0 tips and techniques continue to thrive around the WordPress Community. In this round up of tips, tutorials, and help from around the WordPress Community and beyond we have an interesting look at languages for web talkers, some site design tips with PhotoShop, the WordPress Default Theme CSS styles, a quick look at BackPress, adding Google maps to WordPress blogs in a variety of ways, roles and capabilities, AJAX, apps for WordPress.com, some WordPress Plugin tips on how to write them, and more. Just for you.
Around the WordPress Community: W3 Total Cache, PHP 4 or 5, KSES.php, CRON, and More Links
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jul 7 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, Features
This week in “Around WordPress” we offer a wide variety of tips and tricks, but also a look at how people are using the W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin to improve their blog’s performance and speed. We also look at articles on the difference between PHP 4 and 5, kses.php, CRON, and smart quotes, as well as a look back at Cats Who Code’s top WordPress hacks for 2009, a bookmark worth saving.
Around the WordPress Community: HTML Emails, CSS3, Custom Post Types, Theme Design, and Taxonomies
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jun 30 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, Features
It took some digging, but we’ve uncovered a great new crop of WordPress tips, tricks, hacks, and who knows how to what with WordPress articles for you, along with some design and development tips. This week, we found a great example of how to code HTML emails for those adding emails to your WordPress blogs, using CSS3 and HTML5 to create one of the most awesome subtle shadows to your design, Yoast’s PHP Cross References Search of WordPress source code, custom post types, query multiple taxonomies, and a look at Plugins that help you easily link between your published posts.
WordPress Docs – RubyRails Created New WordPress Documentation
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jun 11 2010 | View Comments
In News, WordPress News
An interesting new attempt to collection up WordPress code documentation uses RubyRails to skim through PHPDoc comments and the WordPress Codex to create a fascinating collection for WordPress developers.
Plugin Picks 4: WP Function Reference
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 10 2010 | View Comments
In Plugin Picks, Podcasts
For those WordPress users who have trouble remembering all the various PHP functions used when coding extensions for the platform, the WP Function Reference WordPress plugin adds a dashboard widget for quick reference.
Around the WordPress Community: Post Thumbnails, Videos, Permalinks, Multiple Bloggers Blog, and Designing for iPad
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Feb 24 2010 | View Comments
In Around the WordPress Community, WordPress
This week our wander through the fields of the WordPress Community include a guide on using the new post thumbnail feature in WordPress, great videos from WordCamp New York, improving your permalink structure, tips for multiple author blogs, a look at some of the most influential designers in the world, and designing website tips for the iPad.
Monitoring the Code News that Helps Run WordPress
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jan 18 2010 | View Comments
In News, Tips, WordPress, WordPress News
Compatibility and conflict issues with WordPress Plugins and Themes aren’t often with WordPress but the code WordPress relies upon such as MySQL, PHP, AJAX, JavaScript, and JQuery. We offer some resources to help you stay up-to-date on the code that runs WordPress.
is_home(), is_archive() and Other Conditional Functions Not Working in WordPress? How To Fix It
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 18 2010 | View Comments
In Tips, WordPress
Calling all WordPress theme developers: If you’re finding that one or more conditional php tags such as is_home(), is_archive(), is_page(), is_single(), etc. aren’t working in some way (causing errors, or, as they all too commonly do, simply yielding nothing), try this tip. It might just save your life.
Post Images and Thumbnails Supported in WordPress 2.9
By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 14 2009 | View Comments
In WordPress News
WPEngineer is reporting this morning that WordPress 2.9 adds native support for post thumbnails, a staple of “magazine” and “newspaper” style themes for years. Up until this point, you needed to use custom fields in WordPress to set an image URL, then specially code PHP to pull from that custom field in a theme file [...]
