From my experience, here is how time is spent when writing a book about WordPress plugins: Seriously, the brainstorm part is ridiculously important. Writing standalone snippets only is neat sometimes, but on the long run it might leave the reader with the impression they won't be able to glue the various parts into a functional plugin themselves. The perfect plugin…
Disclaimer: This one is more awesome than a Nintendo Sixty-FOOOOOOOOOOUR for Christmas. You will want to buy it. You will buy it. The tshirt itself is pretty regular: black, a not too fancy "Let Your Dark Side Out" slogan across the chest. Nothing to scream for. But then you sort of flip the shirt up onto your face and reveal…
It will be a matter of personal preference or a matter of clients asking for it, but I bet this one is going to be a frequent question in the next months: "How do I remove the Admin Bar?". This will probably slightly change as this component is heavily under works, but as of now this short plugin will do:…
(Note that for some reason our system calculated that our Technical Editor @nacin knows more than the 100% you can actually know about WordPress, which made the system crash, guess who's to blame) No, seriously: I'm learning a TON of stuff, even on subjects I thought I was proficient in. Stating the obvious: read the source, document what you read,…
This shirt nicely matches my mood sometimes at work, especially if the day is crippled with meetings. I like its aesthetic simplicity, the university athletic look and the "subtle" details that completely escape the non-initiated bystander (anno 1337 and the latin motto "Subsiste Sermonem Statim" which apparently translates to "Stop Speaking Immediately") Seriously, sporting a giant "STFU" sign right in…
I've just set up blog.yourls.org where hopefully I will, guess what, post about YOURLS development. I think the major stuff will be cross posted here too, at least for now, and I'll blog there about all the misc and fun stuff I never write about (like plugins! owwww plugins!) On a WordPress related side note, the theme running on blog.yourls.org…
I've tried various plugins to backup my tweets into WordPress but none did really the job (actually most were doing much more stuff I didn't need, and most didn't keep track of the "in reply to" bits I wanted to have), so I made my own, which has powered my tweet archive for some time now. The plugin is now…
Recently, as part of a broader redesign, the plugin pages on WordPress.org have begun to reshape. There are some nice addition, for instance now voting that a plugin is broken sends you directly to the support forum to state your problem. But there are changes that I strongly dislike, in particular the removal of the author name and URL, and…
… where "making an UI" means coding the plugin option page, making it understandable, carefully pick some wording, don't overwhelm with unneeded explanations but make sure everything is crystal clear, throw a bit of jQuery to make the page more functional. … and sometimes I'm a bit fed up with this pattern. Note that it's probably because I lack UI…
My latest tshirt is so insanely full of awesomeness that I will have to blog about it on a weekly basis to share how much I dig it. Seriously, every time I pass nearby a mirror, I just stop and contemplate it for 10 minutes. I got it after @Viper007Bond mentioned a cool wallpaper which led me to search for…