By Jeffro on August 18, 2010
Ryan Imel, the same guy who brought you CommentBits.com has announced that he is the new owner of WPCandy.com. WPCandy used to be a definitive resource amongst the WordPress community long before the Tavern was around. In fact, I was a big fan of the website so it’s good to see it brought back from the grave. As part of the announcement, WPCandy now sports a new design with a number of cosmetic updates. Over all, the site has been able to retain its clean and polished look.
While WordPress is a strong niche within the technology industry, we believe it isn’t being done proper service by technology journalism. If you’ve ever been frustrated by a major tech blog misspelling Automattic or mixing up WordPress.com with WordPress.org (or not recognizing the difference at all) then you know what we’re talking about.
But this site isn’t just about blogging, or even blogging well. We have big plans. Fun plans. Big, fun plans.
Vision is far from everything — very far — but it’s also inspiring. And with this vision, I’m inspired
Ryan then goes on to discuss the impact being part of the GooRoo network has for the site. GooRoo is a new business Ryan started near the end of 2009. In essence, GooRoo is slated to become a great content network. Stay tuned to WPCandy.com to see updates on the version four launch, giveaways and what’s going on in the future for the site. Congrats and welcome back WPCandy.
Posted in News | Tagged community, resources, wpcandy
By Jeffro on July 26, 2010
Peter Westwood, one of the core developers for WordPress announced on his personal blog that he has created a new resource specifically for those looking for information on how to contribute to WordPress. The new site is called Patches Welcome and will provide tutorials, a question and answer list, contributor interviews and more. The idea struck Peter as he was coming home from WordCamp UK. So far, the site features an introduction and a story of Peter’s first patch to WordPress.
While I think the idea for a site like this is great, a part of me feels that this is yet another island that’s been created within the WordPress development community that people will need to be pointed to. However, I’m not sure on where such a site and associated content would fit in. If the redesigned WordPress.org site has an area dedicated to resources such as a directory or some sort of map, it’s going to be pretty extensive with all the little islands extending from the project. I wonder though, perhaps it’s me who needs to organize all of the resources and not them?
Posted in News | Tagged patches, peter westwood, resources, welcome |
By Jeffro on April 30, 2010
WPDocs was passed along on the hackers mailing list this morning. It was created by the folks over at The Dextrous Web which is a web development company that focuses on building websites for the public sector. The WordPress API along with files are located in a sidebar on the left with the explanation provided on the right. So far, the feedback from other developers has been great. Among some of the enhancements in the works is for the pages to be indexed by Google, linking to the WordPress trac’s code browser, and listing the uses of a function. You can never have enough resources like this so be sure to add it to your bookmarks.
Posted in News | Tagged docs, documentation, resources, wpdocs
By Jeffro on May 15, 2009
Ryan McCue has released a cool bookmarklet which when used on the WordPress Plugin Repository, will take you directly to the code browser for that plugin. The bookmarklet works on subpages of the plugin page as well as the installation or FAQ pages. If you’re using FireFox, drag the link for the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar. Then, when on a plugin page within the repository, click the button and you’ll be taken right to the code repository for it.
Posted in Plugins | Tagged code, Plugins, resources, shortcut |
By Jeffro on May 14, 2009
Community member Andrea passed this along on Twitter the other day. It’s called the WordPress plugin compatibility checker. The sites to scan the WordPress repository on a regular basis to show plugin authors if their plugin meets the guidelines for compliance. Amongst the data collected so far, it has been discovered that a few false positives do exist. If your plugin happens to have one of these false positives, I recommend signing up to the BraveNewCode forum and let them know so they can increase the accuracy of their dataset.
According to this dataset created on May 13, only 63.8% of plugins are compliant out of 4,920 total plugins. I think it’s interesting to just browse down the list and look at all of the fancy names developers have come up with. After browsing through the list, it appears to me that the error which appears the most has to do with wp-content being hardcoded at least once. The most likely reason for this error showing up is because of the following:
Max WP – The maximum WordPress version this plugin is compatible with. The most common cause of a lower version here is the hardcoding of the wp-content directory (wp-content can be moved as of WP 2.6). Plugins should be referencing WP_CONTENT_DIR instead of using wp-content directly.
So it does not seem like an end of the world scenario. Just for giggles, I looked up Podpress and oh my, what a naughty little plugin this thing is. This just a snippet of the errors this scan found. Check out the page and scroll down to Podress to see the full extent.
Have fun with this resource and let me know what interesting things you find.
Posted in Plugins | Tagged checker, compatibility, Plugins, resources |
By Jeffro on February 25, 2009
NetTuts.com has put together a fantastic list of fifty WordPress related tutorials. They range from configuring multiple installs of WordPress to use a single database to, unraveling the secrets of the comments.php file. Some of the tutorials have been around on the web for a few years now but it’s still good to see them resurface from time to time.
Out of the list, which tutorial is your favorite?
Posted in WordPress | Tagged nettuts, resources, Tutorials
By Jeffro on February 9, 2009
Stefan Vervoort who heads up the blog DivitoDesign has published his own comprehensive list of WordPress resources. He has gone the extra mile and published them in easy to browse sections containing everything from theme starting points to noteworthy articles in the Codex to WordPress Hacks. Stefan also includes a section for WordPress related forums and I’m happy to see that he included the WordPress Tavern Forums within his list.
As I’m currently in the middle of organizing my own set of WordPress resources, this post will make for good inspiration on getting things together to the point where I can publish my own list.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged divitodesign, resources, stefan |
