Tag Archives: WordPress

Advanced Taxonomy Queries with Pretty URLs

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Brent

WordPress 3.1 introduced the best new feature I failed to notice – built-in support for filtering posts by multiple taxonomies. For a post index or custom post type archive, instead of being constrained to queries for one taxonomy like this: … Continue reading →

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Two Reasons Tumblr is Upstaging WordPress.com

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Brent

There was a discussion on WPCandy a few weeks ago asking if Tumblr was the new WordPress. Many commenters on the post tout Tumblr’s features, like post formats, as the key to its success. These are only a small part of the … Continue reading →

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Priority -1000 for WordPress Hooks, Actions and Filters

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Brent

I recently came across some code which set the priority parameter for an add_action() call to -1000. I’d never seen a negative number, or such a large number used for a WordPress action or filter’s priority. Turns out, it’s actually necessary to use such … Continue reading →

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Git to SVN: Automated WordPress Plugin Deployment

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Brent

During my daily commutes through Version Control land, I’d gladly never leave Git’s bountiful pastures. Alas, to deploy my WordPress plugins, I must check-in my code to a Subversion repository on plugins.svn.wordpress.org. There are a few tutorials floating around the web which … Continue reading →

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How to Allow Administrators to Edit Users in a WordPress Network

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Brent

Jason Conroy of _FindingSimple emailed me today to ask if I knew how to allow site admins to edit the profiles of other users. I hadn’t even realised administrators couldn’t edit users! That’s because it relates only to WordPress networks. In … Continue reading →

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Crowd Funding WordPress Plugin Development

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Brent

Over on Speckyboy, Andy Killen just restarted the discussion on rewarding plugin developers. It was a worthy topic of conversation when Alex King raised it last month in his Open Source Motivations post, and it’s a worthy topic now. Why? Well, because we … Continue reading →

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