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Six Apart Suspends Movable Type Open Source Project 16 Jul 2013 | 10:22 am
Six Apart announced that they are suspending the free and open source version of Movable Type. Here’s what I had to say about them revealing the free and open source version of Movable Type, back in 2...
Fragment Caching in WordPress 26 Apr 2013 | 06:11 pm
Fragment caching is useful for caching HTML snippets that are expensive to generate and exist in multiple places on your site. It’s like full page HTML caching, but more granular, and it speeds up dyn...
WordPress 3.6: shortcode_atts_{$shortcode} filter 5 Apr 2013 | 08:12 am
Since WordPress 3.6 is in beta, I thought I’d use this nearly-abandoned blog (hey, been busy working on WordPress!) to talk about some of the cool stuff for developers. For the first installment, chec...
WP Help 1.0 18 Jul 2012 | 12:05 am
My WP Help plugin just got a huge update. Version 1.0 is really worth checking out. I’m quite proud of it. WP Help WP Help is a plugin for creating documentation for display within the WordPress adm...
“The writer should be the one to click it” 28 Jun 2012 | 01:03 am
The beauty of Web publishing, and the specific beauty of TechCrunch, is that the only barrier between bloggers’ overflowing brains and readers’ racing hearts is a publish button. And the writer should...
How WordPress Handles Dashes and Hyphens 25 Jun 2012 | 11:59 pm
WordPress has always valued typography. Properly “curled” quotes, fancy dashes — like this — and more. I want to look specifically at dashes, and talk about how WordPress handles the conversion of hy...
WordPress Skeleton 27 May 2012 | 03:16 am
At my “Scaling, Servers, and Deploys — Oh My!” talk (slides) at WordCamp San Francisco 2011, I talked a bit about my ideal WordPress repo setup. In the spirit of sharing, I’ve now made that skeleton s...
How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!” 16 May 2012 | 08:18 am
Have Baby. Need Stuff! is a baby gear site that my wife and I just launched. I thought I’d share how I built it. WordPress Core WordPress is a Git submodule, with the content directory moved to the ...
Act now to stop Internet censorship legislation in the United States 17 Nov 2011 | 10:02 am
Right now, the United States Congress is holding hearings on legislation that will have disastrous effects on free speech and the Internet. This video gives a good overview: One of the reasons that I...
Translating WordPress Plugins and Themes: Don’t Get Clever 6 Oct 2011 | 05:41 pm
When you use the WordPress translation functions to make your plugin or theme translatable, you pass in a text domain as a second parameter, like so: This text domain is just a unique string (usually...
