Tag: development

  • Grunt your way to automation

    WordPress theme development can feel repetitive. At times there are things you are always doing over and over again. This is true when you are building a WordPress theme for distribution. Thankfully there are tools that can make your workflow a bit easier. Tools In order to make your theme workflow a little easier we…

  • My gripe with widgets

    Yes, I don’t like widgets. Okay that is not entirely true because I am using a few but it’s not what I’m referring to. What I’m referring to is when themes include widgets. Themes that include widgets for contact forms, testimonials, group -or team- members of a company. Dare I say it? Newsletter widget. Cue dramatic…

  • Making a Portable Object Template for your WordPress theme or plugin

    Yes, a bit of a lengthy title but I feel will get the point across and it is after all what I’m wanting to share with you today. A what now? A .pot ( or a Portable Object Template ) file is what WordPress uses and many PHP programs use for translation purposes. There are…

  • Organizing all the media

    Yeah, media. I love it. Most people live it and some are just indifferent about it. Blah! Is what I say to them. The reason I say it is because I love entertainment. Surprised? Don’t be. I am super easily amused. Like super easy. Like two-year-old easily. A little history The last couple of months…

  • You don’t know text

    Okay, maybe you do but what I’m talking about is a different kind of text. I’m talking about text strings in PHP code. Text strings What are they? Why do they matter? Well, they matter in themes that you want to make public or share. Oh, and plugins as well, I guess. If you’re into…

  • So you want to become a WordPress Theme Reviewer?

    What does it take? Some PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS knowledge and a little bit of time to spare. At least that is what it takes to get the ball rolling. Yeah, very simple. Doesn’t take much really. The basics There are some things that you really have to know in order to becoming a WordPress…

  • Choosing the right path

    It’s no secret that I love using WordPress and love design. Those are pretty obvious if you’ve known me for some time. I guess you could say I’m a little addicted to WordPress. My digital meth if you will, but I also love design about the same. Working on WordPress themes is an amazing middle…

  • Filtering the page links

    Filtering the page links

    Nothing is ever truly perfect. There are some things that do come close though. In the mean time we can make just a few changes to get our desired result. The photo above is a quick comparison of a photo I took a few years back while at Yosemite National Park. As you can see…

  • Twenty-thirteen in April

    At least that is the plan from the development blog on core. I updated my trunk version on my desktop which I use primarily for testing and will be using for all my theme and plugin development needs. The one thing that just about everybody noticed from the get-go was the color usage. Vibrant and…

  • Learning with practice

    The progress of my theme is decent. I have been learning how to work with Git and SVN more and more. I did recently have a little conversation with @ipstenu on Twitter about learning version control. Yes, I am still learning how to harness the power of simple commits and getting the hang of how to…