Creating a Plugin from Scratch
Links: Project files: GitHub | download zip Completed project files: GitHub | download zip
Tutorials
Goodbye var_dump, Code Stepping with XDebug and PHPStorm
Several weeks back I had my world turned upside down when I took the advice of Luke Woodward, my team’s Senior Web Engineer at 10up, to hook up code stepping with Xdebug to help troubleshoot a problem I was working on. Boy was that a good idea! I had been intending to hook this up for …
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Password Protect All Post Content
I recently used the built in WordPress protected visibility status in a project where information security was very important. This handy and little used feature does a great job securing content and providing user access on a basic level but has some pretty serious security holes if you hope to use it for anything more …
Remove Strict Warnings in PHP 5.4
This is a quick post today. I had been struggling for a while with strict warnings popping up all over my projects since I upgraded my Vagrant box to PHP 5.4. Your initial reaction might be to fix the strict warnings, and you would be right except when you can’t. It seems that a lot …
Workflows with Git
I am neither a command line wiz or a git expert, but learning a few commands in the terminal and learning the basics of Git has changed my workflow forever! Here is the scenario that I’ve run into more times than I care to count. While working on a new feature for a project you …
Simple Gallery Template Page
Have you ever wanted a dead simple gallery page that doesn’t require any maintenance and automatically pull all images from your WordPress media gallery that are not attached to any post? Here is the code for a page template that does just that: