We just posted the Call for Speakers for WordCamp Seattle 2014. If you’ve got some knowledge or experience you’d like to share with the WordPress community in Seattle, check it out.
I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Dayton 2014 this Saturday about best practices for customizing WordPress plugins. If you’re attending and would like to follow along, you can check out the slides.
It’s really disheartening to read stories like this coming out of the WordPress community, but kudos to Sarah for speaking out about it. We all need to be more aware of these issues and look for ways to prevent things like this from happening in the future.
WordCamp.org now has an RSS feed that announces when new WordCamps are scheduled.
The video from my presentation on the Model-View-Controller pattern at WordCamp Columbus 2013 is now available on WordPress.tv.
I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Columbus 2013 this Saturday on implementing the Model-View-Controller pattern in plugins. If you’re attending and would like to follow along, you can check out the slides.
I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Seattle 2013 tomorrow on creating object-oriented WordPress plugins. If you’re attending and would like to follow along, you can check out the slides.
Here’s a thoughtful and insightful post by Jen Mylo on negativity and meanness in online communities.
I’ll be giving a presentation at the Seattle WordPress Developers Meetup tomorrow about how to write WordPress plugins that are both object-oriented, and implement the Model-View-Controller pattern.
If you plan on attending, you can follow along with the slides and download the lab files.
It’s not possible to create grandchild themes in the same way that you create child themes, but you can use a plugin to dequeue/enqueue stylesheets and scripts, and also override the locations of the main query templates.
It’s obviously not the ideal solution, but there are cases where it may be the least-bad one.