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By Jeffro on November 27, 2012
Oneextrapixel.com has a list of things that WordPress developers will need to know about concerning WordPress 3.5. However, end users are able to pick up a few things as well, especially the part about settings changes. According to the site, the admin page dedicated to Privacy settings has disappeared. The options on that page have been moved to the Reading Settings area. Also for new installs, the ability to change the Character set has been hidden and will use UTF-8 by default. I think this makes total sense and would like to see similar option UI be removed in the future. Even though the UI will be hidden, you can still access the option via options.php. Going this route seems similar to how FireFox works. While there are things to configure, those who want access to everything can go into About:config.
Over the years, the saying has been, “Decisions, not options“. I wonder when options.php will be renamed to decisions.php.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged 3.5, developers, wordpress |
By Jeffro on July 1, 2012
Short post on how WordPress changed the career of Eric Karkovack. I imagine similar designers/developers feel the same way he does.
Of course, WordPress isn’t the only powerful CMS out there. You may enjoy working with different platforms. No matter what you’re using to build websites, the modern tools we have available are making us better designers and developers.
While I’m no where close to considering myself as a designer or developer, WordPress has provided me the opportunity to learn how certain functions within PHP work and has given me a better appreciation of the many technologies that have to work together in order for something like WordPress to function effectively.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged career, designers, developers
By Jeffro on March 1, 2012
This past weekend, I gave my first ever solo talk on WordPress development, with just a hint of UI love. I’ve taught classes on web/digital media and talk to/perform in front of lots of people all the time, but this was my first ever “stand up in front of a room of geeks and go”. It was awesome. I think I kicked ass. My code got the once-over and blessings of some developers that I and many others respect very, very much. And you know one of the comments I got over and over? “It’s amazing/surprising/something-allegedly-positive-but-expressing-a-contradiction-to-perception to see a female developer.” 5
Guess what.
That’s not a helpful comment
An interesting read from an Asian, female WordPress developer and how people like her shouldn’t be viewed as an anomaly.
Posted in News | Tagged developers, women, wordpress |
By Jeffro on February 7, 2012
Chris of LiftUX reached out to me the other day and wanted me to let everyone know that they are hiring for the position of Senior WordPress/PHP developer. The developer would also be helping to build out themes and plugins for UpThemes.
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Posted in News | Tagged developers, jobs, Themes
By Jeffro on December 29, 2011
Yesterday, I received an email from a freelancer who wanted to know if I had any places I could point him to to get more WordPress gigs. The economy is still bad, people are still collecting unemployment, looking for work, but the one constant I’ve noticed is that there is always a need for a WordPress developer either through an established firm or helping out with a specific project. I reached out to those who follow me on Twitter and requested that if they were currently hiring WordPress developers to send me a reply back along with a link to the job offering. Here are the folks that replied back to me.
Page.ly – A dedicated WordPress specific hosting company
While not available on the site just yet, Marshall Oram responded that they are looking to fill a full-time position at their office located in Phoenixville, PA. If interested, contact him via his email address.
Metaltoad – Metal Toad Media is a digital strategy agency looking hard for Drupal and WordPress developers.
B5Media – Full-time position located in Toronto, Canada. These guys manage some popular websites!
Ravidreams – WordPress services company looking for dedicated individuals who eat, sleep, and breath WordPress.
10Up – Jake Goldman mentioned on Twitter that they have recently hired employee #7 and are looking for #8 which could be you!.
I can guarantee you that there are definitely more WordPress gigs out there to be had. I see requests for them all the time on Twitter. If you’re a company that needs WordPress freelancers or looking to fulfill a position, feel free to publish a link to your job offering within the comments. Links to jobs that require bidding will not be published.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged developers, hiring, jobs, wordpress |
By Jeffro on December 8, 2011
Andrew Nacin who is one of the core developers of WordPress has published an extensive field guide for developers regarding WordPress 3.3. The guide contains links to relevant articles and discussions on the WordPress developers blog such as admin bar API changes, Javascript and editor changes, Help screen along with API changes, etc. All developers should take note of the links published by Andrew so you’re well prepared for the release. ∞
Posted in WordPress | Tagged 3.3, blog, checklist, developers |
By Jeffro on October 17, 2011
Daniel Bachhuber who works with WordPress.com VIP Services has published a guide covering some key differences with data validation and sanitization. His explanation is not so technical that even I understood it for the most part. If you’re a developer, definitely give the guide a read and give Daniel some feedback. ∞
Posted in WordPress | Tagged data, developers, sanitization, validation |
By Jeffro on October 27, 2010
This post is an FYI to plugin developers. According to Scribu who posted on the WordPress development update blog, If you were using register_activation_hook() to also handle updates from older versions of your plugins, you will not be able to do so any more in WP 3.1: [16012]The activation hook is now fired only when the user activates the plugin and not when an automatic plugin update occurs. This is consistent with how the deactivation hook works.. There is a proposal for a register_update_hook instead within ticket 14912.
All plugin authors should read the post and the associated tickets to make sure your plugin will check for updates properly after WordPress 3.1 is released.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged developers, hooks, Plugins, updates |
By Jeffro on August 7, 2010
Need help finding the right hook within WordPress? Thanks to PressCoders.com, the job of finding that hook just became much easier with a newly developed resource called WordPress Hook Explorer or WHeX. WHeX is an application built on top of Silverlight 4.0 which means you’ll need to have the Silverlight extension installed within your browser to take advantage of the site. With WHeX, you can browse in real-time all of the hooks within WordPress 3.0. For example, if you’re looking for all hooks dealing with comments, simply type in the word comments into the search box and you’re presented with results that show the hooktype, filename where the hook is located, line number, where at in the directory tree the hook is located, hook full text, hook description, usage, and hook ID. The application also has an index for WordPress 2.9.2 but does not go back any farther.
In the future, PressCoders plans to create an out of browser version of WHeX so that users won’t need to have a browser connected to the web to use it. To see WHeX in action, check out the following video.
DGwyer who is one of the creators of WHeX is open to feedback and requests which you can give via the following forum thread.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged application, developers, hooks, silverlight, wordpress |
By Jeffro on June 28, 2010
BackupBuddy is a great plugin. In fact, recently, it’s become even better now that it has support for Amazon S3 for off site backups and the FTPS protocol. Another staple in the PluginBuddy store is the PluginBuddy Mobile plugin. This plugin enables you to use the built-in style manager you create mobile-ready themes for iPhones or other mobile devices. Considering PluginBuddy is on a roll, now may be as good a time as ever to purchase the PluginBuddy developer suite. And here is one more good reason to do so.
Thanks to the guys over at PluginBuddy.com, I’m able to offer a special coupon code for the first 24 people that take advantage that will take 25% off the purchase price of the Developer Suite. The original price is $197 bucks but after the coupon code, the price is only $147.75. When you figure that a personal membership to BackupBuddy costs $45.00 and the personal membership for the Mobile plugin is $45.00 that’s not too far off from the discounted price which would entitle you access to one year of support and upgrades and any new PluginBuddy plugin released during the membership year. all future products developed by PluginBuddy as well as lifetime support.
If interested in this offer, use the coupon EABDB2C85B during the check out process. If you take advantage of this offer, I thank you very much as a portion of the purchase will come back to me. It’s a win win situation.
Posted in Plugins | Tagged coupon, developers, Plugins, sale |
Oneextrapixel.com has a list of things that WordPress developers will need to know about concerning WordPress 3.5. However, end users are able to pick up a few things as well, especially the part about settings changes. According to the site, the admin page dedicated to Privacy settings has disappeared. The options on that page have been moved to the Reading Settings area. Also for new installs, the ability to change the Character set has been hidden and will use UTF-8 by default. I think this makes total sense and would like to see similar option UI be removed in the future. Even though the UI will be hidden, you can still access the option via options.php. Going this route seems similar to how FireFox works. While there are things to configure, those who want access to everything can go into About:config. 