I took the dive today and moved this site into WordPress 3.0 Development trunk way ahead of the feature freeze date. I been monitoring the commits, and while I haven’t done much except for the few patches I have submitted the code is very stable. For those daring, go ahead and run the trunk. You’ll [...]
One of the problems the core developers have of WordPress is the amount of testing that goes on. Since this is free/open source software, users usually do not try software that they can get free. When its paid software they fell like it’s an obligation to make sure that they are getting their’s money worth [...]
So I been working on behind the scenes on a new Widget version of my theme. It’s now live and it works great, but I had to make a number of modifications to the Widget system for it to work correctly. Back story: The first post in this series is located here. The way the [...]
Wow. That was fast. Not less than 72 hours ago we released RC1 of 2.9 and we got such a good response from testing that we decided to skip the two week testing period for a release of WordPress 2.9 “Carmen”. Early Holiday Present. So get it today using the automatic upgrade feature. Expect WordPress [...]
I wished I used widgets. Why havn’t it? Because the coding around them is mostly hardcoded. Lets take a common scenario that I see all the time and from other people: User A downloads Plugin A. Plugin A has a widget which has hardcoded data output. User A has a custom theme (or a downloaded [...]
This subject is not very well documented anywhere in the WordPress Codex or online. I only found one site that talked about a custom walker class. What is a Walker Class? A walker class allows you to manipulate how data is displaied on your blog without having to modify the core files. What ever methods [...]
Just want to let all you fellow WordPress users know that while I was at WordCamp NYC 2009, I did talk for a few minutes with Matt about a potential new media system. A while back I posted up a wireframes document. That version is now way outdated and been working on a new version [...]
