How Open Source Can Mitigate the Harms of Employer Copyright Claims

Almost every software company claims copyright on their developers' side-projects in order to protect themselves from lawsuits, but there's a way to do it without taking away the employee's rights.

Accessing Post Meta and More Via $post->meta_key

It turns out there's a much better way to fetch post meta than get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'foo', true ): $post->foo.

Using git-svn to Manage Plugins in the WordPress.org Repository

Unfortunately, the WordPress.org plugin repository doesn’t provide a way to maintain your plugin with Git. In the past, I’ve either just used Subversion, or hosted an extra copy on GitHub, and setup Git and SVN side-by-side in the same directory. Awhile ago, I briefly considered using git-svn, because it would allow me to avoid using Subversion entirely, […]

Finding all Sites That have a Plugin Active

I wanted to find out which sites in a Multisite network had a certain plugin active, but couldn't find an existing solution I was happy with. So, I wrote a WP-CLI command to do the job.

Rename WordPress’ Database Prefix with WP-CLI

I wanted to update the database prefix one this site, but most of the tutorials out there have you do it manually. There are some plugins available, but I didn’t trust most of them, and the ones that I did were kind of bloated with other features, and I didn’t want to mess with the […]

WordCamp Seattle 2016 Call for Speakers

We’ve opened the call for speakers for this year’s WordCamp Seattle. Give it a shot if you have any ideas, best practices, use cases, or stories you want to share with the community. I think people are often hesitant to put themselves out there, and that’s definitely understandable, but the WordPress community is really welcoming, and I think […]

Regolith

I just finished the first version of a new WordPress installation template called Regolith. I’ve been using my personalized fork of Mark Jaquith’s WordPress Skeleton for the past several years, but recently came across Bedrock and really liked it. I started playing around with it, but quickly discovered that the tools and practices it embraced were a bit overkill for […]

Ian Dunn

WordPress Developer

How Open Source Can Mitigate the Harms of Employer Copyright Claims

Accessing Post Meta and More Via $post->meta_key

Using git-svn to Manage Plugins in the WordPress.org Repository

Finding all Sites That have a Plugin Active

Rename WordPress’ Database Prefix with WP-CLI

WordCamp Seattle 2016 Call for Speakers

Regolith