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Quick Tip: After the Content – Comments

Barış Ünver — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:45:41 +0000

Sure, "content is king" but if you don't provide useful parts with the content, you can say that "the emperor is naked". In this series, we're going to study the parts to enrich the content and in this final piece of this series, we're going to see the most important part after the content: comments.

Using CSS Preprocessors With WordPress – LESS + CodeKit

Jason Bradley — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:37:36 +0000

In the first part of this series I gave a quick overview of the popular CSS preprocessors LESS and SASS. I also shared a few of the frameworks in which they are used. I plan on taking a deeper dive into LESS and talking about the parts of the language I use most often. I [...]

Win a Ticket to Our New Tuts+ Live Workshop

Joel Bankhead — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:17 +0000

We have 5 tickets to give away for our newest Tuts+ Live Workshop, all you have to do is subscribe to our newsletter. Be quick though, this giveaway ends on Monday! We have a superb new Workshop, Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development, starting in a week. This is your chance to win a free ticket! [...]

Design Patterns in WordPress: We’re Just Getting Started

Tom McFarlin — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:26:36 +0000

Throughout this series, we’ve been taking a look at a few design patterns and how they are applicable to software development – specifically WordPress development. The thing about design patterns is that there is a wide variety of them and it would be near impossible to do justice to each of the patterns in a series [...]

Using CSS Preprocessors With WordPress – What Are They?

Jason Bradley — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:32:45 +0000

I’ve been working with WordPress for three years, but it wasn’t until a year ago that I got serious about WordPress development. Specifically, I’m passionate about child theming and spend much of my time working in theme development. During the past couple of years, we’ve seen the rise of CSS preprocessors – mainly, tools that [...]

Take Your Skills to the Next Level, Build Your Own Plugins

Joel Bankhead — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:30:35 +0000

There are only a few Early Bird tickets left for our fantastic new workshop led by Instructor Tom McFarlin: Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development Are you an aspiring WordPress developer? Are you ready to take the next step and start building your own custom plugins for WordPress? Our newest Tuts+ Live Workshop is the perfect [...]

Design Patterns in WordPress: The Simple Factory Pattern

Tom McFarlin — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:34:36 +0000

In this series, we’re taking a look at design patterns and how we can leverage them to our advantage when building products on top of WordPress. The nice thing about design patterns is that they aren’t explicitly limited to themes or plugins – they are handy in a variety of different scenarios. It’s simply a [...]

Quick Tip: After the Content – Share This

Barış Ünver — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:47:51 +0000

Sure, "content is king" but if you don't provide useful parts with the content, you can say that "the emperor is naked". In this series, we're going to study the parts to enrich the content and in this post, we're moving on with one of the essential parts of this era: a sharing section.

Design Patterns in WordPress: The Singleton Pattern

Tom McFarlin — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:00 +0000

Throughout this series, we’re taking a look at the significance of design patterns and the roles that they play in WordPress development. In the first post in the series, we took a high-level survey and even reviewed the Observer Pattern to see how it’s possible to register various functions or objects with certain events that [...]

Design Patterns in WordPress: An Introduction

Tom McFarlin — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:23:48 +0000

For those who have an extensive background in software engineering, design patterns should be familiar territory; however, there’s an entire group of developers – especially in the web development community – who aren’t necessarily familiar with design patterns (even though they’ve likely used them!). In this series, we’re going to take a look at design [...]