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World-wide online protest against NSA surveillance
Do you have a blog on WordPress.com, and want to help send a message against NSA surveillance? Go to Settings → Protest NSA Surveillance, and click the checkbox to show your support today on The Day We...
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Tell Us What You Think
Kirk Wight:Let us know what you’d love to see on ThemeShaper! Originally posted on ThemeShaper: We’d love to know what sort of content you’d like to read on ThemeShaper in 2014. Take our quick poll and...
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Fundamentals of Theme Development
Have you ever wondered where The Loop and the Template Hierarchy come from? What happens behind the scenes in core to make themes do what they do? Find out in my talk from WordCamp Montreal 2013,...
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State of Drupal (and WordPress notes)
Originally posted on simpledream: What can the WordPress community learn from the State of Drupal? (Via Nathan Smith.) View original
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REST Development Console — now open source!
Kirk Wight:This is a great tool to get started playing with WordPress APIs. Originally posted on Developer Resources: For developers working with the REST API, the browser-based API console is an...
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Life is hard enough
To live one’s life is hard enough. Why write down all the misery? It would resemble nothing more than the inventory of a torture chamber. — Franz Liszt, on why he didn’t keep a diary From the book...
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Evolving the Customizer
Kirk Wight:The Customizer is dead. Long live the Customizer. Originally posted on WiebePress: The Customizer is great. I’ve been working in and around it to offer site customization features to our...
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Debugging theme mods
When developing themes, it can be useful to see what theme mods (setting values from get_theme_mod()) are set for your themes at the database level. However, this information is serialized, making it...
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How to tail a log with live server clock
Kirk Wight:Super helpful timestamp clock while tailing error logs. Originally posted on Andy Skelton: At work I have to watch my server’s error log. Good old tail -F /path/to/log runs over SSH all day,...
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Simple testing of different Git commits
I use branches a lot with Git, as I find them easy to understand and a great tool for organizing. If you want to easily switch back and forth between versions of your code base for testing, you can...
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Morten Rand-Hendriksen: Future Responsive Today – Embracing mobile-first with...
Kirk Wight:Great talk from WordCamp Vancouver 2014; required viewing for theme devs. Originally posted on WordPress.tv: View original
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What WordPress Themes are really about (and WordPress 4.1)
Kirk Wight:A good reminder of what meaningful theme development is all about. Originally posted on Ian Daniel Stewart: I’ll be committing code to WordPress again with version 4.1! I made my last big...
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JSON in the Chrome Inspector
Sometimes you get back JSON data in a browser window, and it would be nice to just check it out without having to fire up anything else, or muck with copy/pasting. A quick Google search implies you...
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On API Correctness
Kirk Wight:Great summary pointing to the heart of working with APIs. Originally posted on Developer Resources: Developing APIs is hard. You pour your blood, sweat, and tears into this interface that...
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New Theme: Twenty Fifteen
Kirk Wight:My favourite default theme in quite a while. Congrats to all involved! Originally posted on WordPress.com News: It’s that time of year again. The snow has started falling in northern...
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LEMP Stack on Yosemite
This is a great article on getting a LEMP stack running on OS X 10.10 Yosemite: http://blog.frd.mn/install-nginx-php-fpm-mysql-and-phpmyadmin-on-os-x-mavericks-using-homebrew/ Personally, I skipped...
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Material of Un-Ambiguity
By far, this is my favourite spam comment I’ve gotten on this blog in a long time. What a material of un-ambiguity and preserveness of valuable familiarity concerning unpredicted feelings.
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It’s not simple designing simple things
I think most people just make the mistake that it should be simple to design simple things. In reality, the effort required to design something is inversely proportional to the simplicity of the...
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The Web’s Grain by Frank Chimero
Kirk Wight:Great find by Jack Lenox on seeing the Web again for the first time. Originally posted on Jack Lenox: I read this this morning. It’s a sublime observation of where web design has come from,...
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Kirk Wight: A Call for Simplicity
Kirk Wight:My recent talk on Simplicity, presented at WordCamp Maui, has been posted. Enjoy! Originally posted on WordPress.tv: View original
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